Monday Mirthiness – ‘scientists’ to offer eulogy, commemorative plaque to a glacier

From Rice College and the “staged local weather photo-op, aka please ship cash” division.

HOUSTON – (July 18, 2019) – Iceland’s first glacier misplaced to local weather exchange might be remembered with a monument to be unveiled subsequent month on the website online of the previous glacier. Researchers from Rice College in Houston, creator Andri Snær Magnason and geologist Oddur Sigurðsson will sign up for individuals of the Icelandic Mountaineering Society and most of the people Aug. 18 to put in a monument spotting the website online of the previous Okjökull glacier in Borgarfjörður, Iceland.

The melted glacier used to be the topic of the 2018 documentary “No longer Good enough,” produced through Rice anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer. The movie, narrated through former Reykjavík Mayor Jón Gnarr, tells the tale of “Good enough,” which in 2014 become the primary glacier in Iceland to lose its identify as a result of international warming. Boyer and Howe mentioned scientists concern the entire island country’s 400-plus glaciers might be long past through 2200.

“This would be the first monument to a glacier misplaced to local weather exchange anyplace on the planet,” Howe mentioned. “By means of marking Good enough’s passing, we are hoping to attract consideration to what’s being misplaced as Earth’s glaciers expire. Those our bodies of ice are the biggest freshwater reserves on the earth and frozen inside of them are histories of the ambience. They’re additionally regularly vital cultural bureaucracy which can be stuffed with importance.

“In the similar spirit because the movie, we would have liked to create a long-lasting memorial to Good enough, a small glacier that has a large tale to inform,” Boyer mentioned. “Good enough used to be the primary named Icelandic glacier to soften as a result of how people have reworked the planet’s setting. Its destiny might be shared through all of Iceland’s glaciers except we act now to radically curtail greenhouse fuel emissions.”

The movie celebrated its global premiere at Bíó Paradís Cinema in Reykjavík ultimate August, and the movie’s creators hosted an “Un-Glacier Excursion” to view the remnants of Okjökull. A 2nd “Un-Glacier Excursion” will lead members to the website online the place the monument might be put in. The ones curious about becoming a member of the excursion might RSVP on-line at https://www.notokmovie.com.

Howe and Boyer hope the monument will carry consciousness concerning the decline of Iceland’s glaciers and the have an effect on of local weather exchange.

“Considered one of our Icelandic colleagues put it very correctly when he mentioned, ‘Memorials don’t seem to be for the lifeless; they’re for the dwelling,’” Howe mentioned. “With this memorial, we need to underscore that it’s as much as us, the dwelling, to jointly reply to the speedy lack of glaciers and the continuing affects of local weather exchange. For Good enough glacier it’s already too overdue; it’s now what scientists name ‘lifeless ice.’”

Media curious about attending both match or interviewing Boyer or Howe might touch Amy McCaig, senior media family members specialist at Rice, at 713-348-6777 or [email protected].

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Good enough, initially, I don’t suppose those folks absolutely know how glaciers paintings. They’re nearly solely pushed through precipitation, no longer temperature. The method of ice loss in a polar glacier is principally two issues, with temperature coming in ultimate.

1. Calving into the ocean (no longer acceptable in this glacier).
2. Ice loss thru sublimation.
3. In some circumstances, melting because of increased temperature.

Al Gore made the error of blaming ice loss at Mt. Kilimanjaro on “international warming”, when it grew to become out to be solely because of much less precipitation, thus permitting the ice to sublimate.

In relation to Iceland, the glaciers there are depending on precipitation similar to another glacier, and adjustments within the North Atlantic Oscillation may simply give an explanation for the exchange in precipitation.

Then there’s the inconvenient reality that the glacier most probably didn’t exist a couple of hundred years in the past, in keeping with a paper through the U.S. Geological Survey:

Bemoaning the “loss of life” of a glacier that most effective seems at positive occasions in Earth’s geologic historical past is a fools errand. However alternatively, maximum local weather alarmists posing as scientists are fools anyway. Simply have a look at what lately took place at Glacier Nationwide Park, the place they’d to take away plaques indicating they anticipated the glaciers to be long past through 2020.

Any bets on how lengthy this new plaque will ultimate?