Comments on: Gretel Ehrlich’s The Future of Ice http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08/the-future-of-ice/ stargazer, muddler, muffle-jaw, cockatouch, spoonhead, hookear, gudgeon, grubby, blob, bull-rout, blue garnet, miller's thumb Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:12:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: paul http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08/the-future-of-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-34662 paul Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:31:06 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08//#comment-34662 sorry, this { <em> “We hear about the fragility of the upper atmosphere, how sensitive it is to environmental changes…. In a few hours we’ll be flying back to London.”</em> } just kills me. Reading that aloud would have surely underscored the absurdity of that juxtaposition. Yeaarccgh. sorry, this {
“We hear about the fragility of the upper atmosphere, how sensitive it is to environmental changes…. In a few hours we’ll be flying back to London.”
} just kills me. Reading that aloud would have surely underscored the absurdity of that juxtaposition.

Yeaarccgh.

]]> By: paul http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08/the-future-of-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-34660 paul Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:24:12 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08//#comment-34660 Well, it's possible to get from Wyoming to California by train, though I suspect that's not how she does it. I don't want to sound like those mindless idiots who claim that Al Gore's flights to educate people about climate change are undoing his work but it does make it hard to take people seriously when they take an "austerity for thee but not for me" attitude. I realize Gore has made an effort to mitigate things with carbon offsets, etc. Dare we hope everyone who talks the talk does the same? Well, it’s possible to get from Wyoming to California by train, though I suspect that’s not how she does it.

I don’t want to sound like those mindless idiots who claim that Al Gore’s flights to educate people about climate change are undoing his work but it does make it hard to take people seriously when they take an “austerity for thee but not for me” attitude. I realize Gore has made an effort to mitigate things with carbon offsets, etc. Dare we hope everyone who talks the talk does the same?

]]> By: Josh http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08/the-future-of-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Josh Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:47:52 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08//#comment-507 In a similar vein: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/ewedistrict/297547.html">I present to you the case for the abolition of the "No War For Oil" bumper sticker on automobiles</a> In a similar vein: I present to you the case for the abolition of the “No War For Oil” bumper sticker on automobiles

]]> By: Josh http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08/the-future-of-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Josh Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:58:08 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08//#comment-506 She reminds me a little of the Crocodile Hunter, only for the ecosystem. "Crikey, here's a beaut! Look at these cirrus formations; you don't see those every day--these lovelies are endangered. Now, I'm going to very carefully sneak up behind... and... *poke* Oooh, he didn't like that!" She reminds me a little of the Crocodile Hunter, only for the ecosystem. “Crikey, here’s a beaut! Look at these cirrus formations; you don’t see those every day–these lovelies are endangered. Now, I’m going to very carefully sneak up behind… and… *poke* Oooh, he didn’t like that!”

]]> By: Wim http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08/the-future-of-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-505 Wim Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:34:33 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2005/08/08//#comment-505 I've read that it's significantly more efficient for a jetliner to make a stopover in Iceland if flying from here to Europe, since it has to carry less fuel (yay exponential rockey equation). I've been keeping this in mind in case I visit Europe again: it will also give me an excuse to visit Iceland, which I've been wanting to do. On the other hand, if traveling by tramp freighter, Iceland is probably very much out of the way. I’ve read that it’s significantly more efficient for a jetliner to make a stopover in Iceland if flying from here to Europe, since it has to carry less fuel (yay exponential rockey equation). I’ve been keeping this in mind in case I visit Europe again: it will also give me an excuse to visit Iceland, which I’ve been wanting to do.

On the other hand, if traveling by tramp freighter, Iceland is probably very much out of the way.

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