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2005-05-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Swiss Ski Resort Covers Glacier with Foil to Protect Against Sun

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder if these people realize how much energy it takes to make the aluminum they're wasting.

Posted by PBMcL 2005-05-11 00:28|| 2005-05-11 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 What is it with environuts and their hostility to CO2? Did they skip school? It's a plant food! In that sense it may be a greenhouse gas if one wants to pump it there to increase yield.

In fact, compress an ample supply of CO2 to fil the fire extinguisher in liquid state, release it against a sixpack and your beer is cooled from 65F to 37F in mere 120 seconds!

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-11 00:43|| 2005-05-11 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I didn't read anything about their environmental impact statement. Or is it standard Euro policy to let some small business just upset the fagile ecosystem as they see fit.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-11 06:25|| 2005-05-11 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 "Environmental groups protested as the glacier was covered, saying a fundamental change in climate policy - not short-term measures - was required."

I'll bet they lose chunks of the foil at night when these clowns need party hats or decide to "brainstorm" their next protest.

Posted by .com 2005-05-11 06:35|| 2005-05-11 06:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like a business issue to me, not enviro craziness. This resort gets a lot of visitors who want to see the glacier.

I think they're stupid to try this stunt, tho.

Posted by too true 2005-05-11 07:24|| 2005-05-11 07:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Funny, .com. These guys are clearly not systems thinkers. A glacier advances or retreats as a function of the precipitation over its source (which to a degree is its entire length) and the temperatures at or near its terminus with some time lag in between. The answer should be obvious to anyone who has worked in a ski resort - make snow over the glacier. These clowns are either to stupid to have figured this out or this the tinfoil is publicity stunt (irony is not their strong suit). I tend to the later explanation cos the environmental 'debate' is one long series of publicity stunts, completely void of any serious analysis.

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-11 07:40|| 2005-05-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Right on, .com! It all has to do with what is happening in the neve, plus time delay. Maybe the aluminum foil can be used to construct massive quantities of tinfoil hats.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-05-11 09:35|| 2005-05-11 09:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry, I meant phil_b.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-05-11 09:36|| 2005-05-11 09:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Seems a waste of potential tin foil hats to me

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-05-11 09:58|| 2005-05-11 09:58|| Front Page Top

#10 The Andermatt ski-lift company has laid a synthetic carpet over 2,500 square metres of glacier in a unique experiment to ward off the effects of global warming.

The reflective high-tech material is designed to stop the Gurschen glacier from melting away beneath the resortâs upper cable-car station.
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Posted by SwissTex 2005-05-11 14:46|| 2005-05-11 14:46|| Front Page Top

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