Concrete Evidence Man is Causing Glacier Retreat
**Written by Doug Powers
For a long time I wasn’t convinced that glacier shrinkage was part of a natural earth-sun cycle and not caused by anything man was doing, but I stand corrected:
Police in Chile have arrested a man on suspicion of stealing five tonnes of ice from the Jorge Montt glacier in the Patagonia region to sell as designer ice cubes in bars and restaurants.
Local media reported that last Friday police intercepted a refrigerated truck with an estimated £3,900 worth of illicit ice allegedly bound for whiskies, rums and cocktails in the capital Santiago.
Authorities have accused the driver of theft and are considering adding violation of national monuments to the charge sheet.
Scientists say Jorge Montt, part of the Bernardo O’Higgins national park, is retreating by half a mile a year, making it one of the world’s fastest shrinking glaciers.
Add that to the list of causes.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Gads, I hope there wasn’t a polar bear on that glacier? He would REALLY be in trouble with peta.
Gotta give the guy a thumbs up for being a capitalist!
L
What’s the problem?
This enterprising entrepreneur was exploiting a resource that would have just gone to waste, and created a few jobs to boot.
No polar bears in Patagonia. Penguins, maybe.
Ted Kennedy used to import his ice cubes from this guy ever since he ingested a bad domestic ice cube that caused Chappaquiddick.
You know, I’ve heard of this being done before, several years ago. Glacial ice is beautifully colored blue or green and fizzes in drinks.
At least that’s a legitimate way man can shrink glaciers by his own determination.
So is covering the ice caps with soot, but let’s not get behind ourselves.
I know that. I guess I should have put a sarc tag at the end?
L
OFMG! That’s awful! If only we’d acted sooner, there might be some left! /sarc
I think the real crime is diluting the whiskies, rums and cocktails…
My first thought upon seeing the article title:
“Who is Concrete Evidence Man?”
I have some designer ice cubes they can buy. From recycled water that’s probably a billion years old. A yellow polar bear stain is extra.
Oh no, they’ve already gone extinct down there?!
/lib
Damn, I should have refreshed.
Glaciers are the anomaly.
They are vestiges of the preceding Ice Age.
The earth is approx. 4.5 Billion years old. The last Ice Age started maybe 2 million years ago, and ended 10 to 14 thousand years ago, depending on which scientist you talk to. There have been maybe 4 Ice Ages total.
The glaciers are getting smaller because THEY ALWAYS GET SMALLER. In fact, they are supposed to disappear.
Save the Mastodons!
Well, it is certainly not Eric (with)Holder.
Okay, that made me laugh.
The liberals are just pissed at this guy. Doesn’t he know that being a capitalist is evil? He should work harder at trying to stimulate the economy by fileing for unemployment benefits and food stamps. it is no wonder our economy is not recovering!…/sarc
And again!
Sorry. I see the light-hearted tone of your post, now. I just didn’t read it that way before. At least it was a nice set-up for some vanishing southern polar bear jokes, so it isn’t a total loss.
Patagonia? Oh, I have a ski jacket from Patagonia, for all that gorebull warming going on in the ski areas.
“Polar Bear? I say, “Son, I ain’t no Polar Bear!!! That there’s-a Polar Bear!!!“
Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.
Ice cubes? ….YECHHHHHH! No ice thank you.
It’s basically compressed snow that collects everything else that drops out of the sky like bird droppings plus soot and dust from God knows where and concentrates it all as it gets compacted.
And then there are huskies for those yellow designer ice cubes….
Wow, if they keep cutting away at the glaciers we’ll end up with polar bare.
Wasn’t he doing the folks down there a favor by removing the glacier? After all, when it melts due to AGW (or climate change or whatever the heck we’re supposed to call it today), won’t there be less water, therefore less flooding?
Dunno, just a thought.
Good ole Jorge, life of the party.
I was sure the evidence was in the concrete.
I remember back when I was very young that a truck would come around door to door selling ice for kitchen iceboxes. They’d cut it from the lakes in the area during the winter and store it in warehouses all summer. Nobody seemed to think it was all that unusual, and definitely not criminal.
and what about the dodo bird?
Guess you didn’t eat snow when you was a kid or have snow ice cream?
Shoot when I as a kid I licked the cow lick and drank out of the irrigation ditch. We drank milk right from the cow. No telling what was in all those things? I’m still here over 60 years later! Might have even had lizard poo in the water for all I know?
L
– Danceswithdachshunds
You forget we live in a world where bird’s-nest soup, of which the primary ingredient is a nest made of the snot from a bird, is considered a delicacy.
I’d bet this guy (had his ice not been confiscated) would have made a killing.
Almost every moring my little brother would sneak cream off the milk when we stayed at our grandmother’s house. Man I hated skim milk.
ew, gross–all that for a bunch of frozen water full of the Iceman’s dandruff & lord knows what all?
If it’s below freezing there, why couldn’t he just bring a truck load of water up there and bring down a truck load of ice?
Kind of like replanting a forest cut down for paper.
In fact, maybe the UN should think about taking some sea water up to the top and creating man made glaciers to save the world from rising sea levels. It would be cheaper than charging everyone on earth for carbon use.
ME too. I haven’t had any milk in over 20 years! It sucks with the water taste!
Guess we need to get a Jersey cow in our back yard? That is nice milk! We had one when I was a child.
L
shhhh! {wink, wink}
A shouldn’t have to tell you that bird snot/saliva and bird poop come from opposite ends of the bird. Then again you kinda know what you’re getting into if you order bird nest soup.
Everyone ~thinks~ that cold mountain stream water is pure and clean. Nope…
I’ll eat the fresh snow and you can have all the 1000′s year old stuff for yourself – deal?
2nd Cousin to Piltdown Man.
As opposed to that fishy “Concrete Witness Man” who never showed up to testify.
The Piltdown Man hoax is a good analogy to the CAGW hoax, complete with its own consensus from an inner circle of politically motivated anthropologists.
Speaking of glacier melting, wasn’t there someplace a year or two ago that when the ice melted they found tools that were left behind 1000′s of tears ago?
tears = years
Phat phinger typing on iPhone
Duhhh
The only concrete around here is between Al Gore’s ears.
Oh the memories! Snow ice cream made with real Vermont maple syrup!! Best thing ever!
Evo-3D has larger display (4.3″).
So does the Samsung Galaxy SII
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DEAl, I bet that things in the ice age would be better for you than what you get in our bread, veggies, soft drinks, anything mo has in her famous ‘garden’ or take out hamburger! If you was a child that parents saw to it you did not eat dirt, did not have anything in your life that wasn’t ‘government’ approved, had an antiobiotic for every sniffle, you probably had lots of childhood problems and in later life you are going to the doctor for things you should have not had to deal with. If, God forbid, you DO get a major problem with health did the fact you didn’t eat an iceberg save you? BTW, how do YOU know what is in the berg and will it kill you?
L
Could be worse, it could be a DYAC moment
Thanks.
For now my checkbook says I’ll have wait.
– Danceswithdachshunds
It may be arguably less disgusting, but it is still disgusting.
Just making the point that people find weird things delicacies, so the guy would probably find a pretty good market for his novelty ice.
Do they have juries down there in Chile? That would be one jury trial that would be fun to be on. Storage of the evidence would be a problem, especially if there was a retrial somewhere along the way.
Probably a DC Comics superhero who was intended to be a member of the Justice League Of America, but got dropped due to last minute changes.
It’s nice to hear something other than “conservatives” are in retreat. I just that retreat was happening “at glacial speed” but sadly, “conservatives” retreat even before the battle begins.
Polar bears are extinct in Patagonia already? Who would’ve thought?
Those are not penguins, those are guys in Tuxedos
But… but the media and the government tell me it’s so, so it must be.
In South Korea, they beliece that an electric fan can kill you in your sleep. The government and the media preach this.
Fan death
Snarky Minnesota Joke of the Day
If this had been in Minnesota the guy would have been arrested for ice fishing and possession without a license.
Sorry Happy
“Vass fer sooper, Snookums?”
“Lars, ve havink Glacial Ice.”
“Ja, shoor, ya betcha!”
Well there was a polar bear in the old Chilly Willy cartoons. Maybe there is something to this endangered polar bear stuff.
Now, that is funny!
That article has been one of my favorites for years. They seem to have added an origin theory which is quite interesting:
Conservation kills. I wonder how many old people in South Korea have died during hot weather for fear of using a fan or air conditioner…
164 dead as cold snap grips Europe
Hide the decline!
An old joke applies here…
Why does the Mississippi River flow south??
I just knew that Al Gore was right all along!
Five tons of ice from a total of several bazillion tons comprising a single glacier? The ‘officials’ are worrying about a single fly dropping in a five-pound sack of pepper!
#27 On February 2nd, 2012 at 4:58 pm, txvet2 said:
Has the Iceman cometh? No, but he is breathing hard!
Benny Hill: Darling, how could you do that with the postman, when we owe the milkman so much?!
Yes – ’twas a lot of work to build that glacier. All those tools and tears, thousands of them. Now it is all in vain.
Er… because the Gulf of Mexico sucks?
I give up, Happy.
Benny Hill (imitating one of the Ladybirds):
Everyone says that my Bum
Titti-bum-bum
beats the lot!
Ha! Very close! Since I was speaking to Flyoverman, and he is from Iowa, the answer is “Iowa Sucks”. I was just returning his jab.