Arctic Ice argues its rare, pure product can be part of Greenland’s green transition and greater independence

Pardon?

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    59·
    10 个月前

    The ancient ebola viruses locked in ice for thousands of years as some rich asshole takes a sip:

    • SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee
      193·
      10 个月前

      I think this is a plot point from the game Talos Principle. Melting arctic ice releases a virus that wipes out humanity leaving only machines to become intelligent and carry on civilization.

      Edit: The game is 10 years old people and this is barely a spoiler.

  • dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.worldOP
    511·
    10 个月前

    If this were a plot point in a novel I would think it too on the nose and unrealistic. This is the fucking world we live in

  • pdxfed@lemmy.world
    45·
    10 个月前

    Countries with non-renewable resources being scalped by profiteers …who runs out first?!? Stay tuned …

  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
    39·
    10 个月前

    The Great Lakes used to be a source of ice for peoples ice boxes. There were railroads built to move it to cities. In my town there was a huge building full of ice and sawdust that would keep it frozen into the summer.

    There hasn’t been so much as a skim of ice on the shore this year.

    • Nudding@lemmy.world
      27·
      10 个月前

      Less than half a percent of ice coverage on new years day this year, while in the 1980s it would be over 10%. We’re so fucked lol.

    • bitwaba@lemmy.world
      20·
      10 个月前

      Sweet Tea is a southern delicacy because it was the ultimate rich plantation owner flex. Ships in the winter used to grab icebergs and drag them down to harbors which were then cut up and taken to be stored at the plantations in saw dust. Then they’d need tea from India or China, and sugar cane from the Caribbean. It was literally a global drink. Something only the richest of people would be able to obtain all the resources for to have their house slaves whip up for a visitor on a hot summer afternoon.

  • Darkblue@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 个月前

    Oh no, the world is now seriously doing what was a funny satirical subplot in the movie Brewster’s Millions.

    Movies are not meant as instructions people, cmon!

  • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
    25·
    10 个月前

    This sounds like something out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Something you’d read just before the Earth gets blown up.

  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
    242·
    10 个月前

    Sure. Why the fuck not. There’s more money in killing the planet than saving it, and humanity has decided that short term profits are more important than investing in our future, so might as well go full throttle.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    16·
    10 个月前

    I put this in the cross post, bit figure it belongs here, too:

    While ridiculous, there’s interesting context here.

    • Greenland has little to no economy
    • The ice is mined from ice that has already broken away from the glacier, thus not reducing any more than nature has already
    • Cargo ships bringing frozen food used to leave empty, now that same fuel is used to transport ice back instead of going to waste
    • The founder has always dreamed of a sustainable economy for Greenland
    • He is conflicted about how his work to do this in a sustainable way is being taken

    Lots of gray here.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 个月前

      assuming that big pieces near the glacier are also being picked up, wouldn’t they still help keep the temperature of the seas near the glaciers down therefore helping reduce melting?

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        3·
        10 个月前

        My understanding is it’s actually the opposite, due to impacts to AMOC:

        https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29226-8

        In today’s warming climate, the persistent North Atlantic cooling anomaly off the southeast coast of Greenland is thought to be caused by the accelerating input of meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and considered an indicator of a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Modelling studies suggest that increased freshwater input from Greenland has the potential to slow down AMOC in the future, thus substantially weakening heat transport to the North Atlantic and potentially driving positive ice sheet-ocean feedbacks

        Basically, the melt reduces surface temps, and slows the AMOC (bad):

        https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/amoc.html

        If the AMOC does continue to slow down, however, it could have far-reaching climate impacts. For example, if the planet continues to warm, freshwater from melting ice at the poles would shift the rain belt in South Africa, causing droughts for millions of people. It would also cause sea level rise across the U.S. East Coast.

        EDIT: I am no expert here, for context.

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    13·
    10 个月前

    You go girl, milk those stupid rich people for all you can. I sure hope they are just pretending to transport ice and are actually selling them frozen tap water. Getting rich people to pay lots of money for stupid shit is basically wealth redistribution.