Here’s the latest news on the green brigade’s latest efforts to ‘draw attention’ to ‘man-made global warming’:
ALETSCH GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) - Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland’s shrinking Aletsch glacier on Saturday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.
Tunick, perched on a ladder and using a megaphone, directed nearly 600 volunteers from all over Europe and photographed them on a rocky outcrop overlooking the glacier, which is the largest in the Alps.
Later he took pictures of them standing in groups on the mass of ice and lying down. Camera crews were staged at five different points on the glacier to take photographs.
Glaciers are sensitive to climate change and have been receding since the start of the industrial age but the pace of shrinkage has accelerated in recent years.
The environmental group Greenpeace, which organized the shoot, said the aim was to “establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body.”
Heh. Yeah. The more those glaciers melt, the more their minds turn to mush.
Bookworm Room responds:
Not that any of these people would care, but I should point out that my son asked why Greenland is icy, while Iceland is green. He was just being silly, so I didn’t bother him with the historical truth but let me bother you with it. Greenland got its name because it used to be green, or at least tolerably warm, until the Little Ace Age hit.
Climates change…. Those same Alps, over the next few billions of years, will see warm and cold weather, cycling over decades, centuries and millenia. Naked people won’t change that
Captain Ed wonders what’s next for Greenpeace’s nude protestors:
What’s next? I think it’s obvious. The touring show will start in the US this fall, and Greenpeace will call it “Naked Environmentalists On Ice!”
Yes, complete with people hired to do bathroom patrol to make sure attendees and participants only use one square of toilet paper per powder room visit and, er, avoid water at all costs, which should make those bathroom pit stops a bit tricky, not to mention the ice skating.
Incidentally, somebody might want to clue these idiots in on that Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change report (which I blogged about earlier this week) which found that temperatures in Greenland were declining and that glaciers there were actually expanding. It would be yet another Inconvenient Truth the agw fanatics wouldn’t want to hear, because in their world, ignorance really is bliss.
To see photos of the Greenpeace photo shoot, go here. Click on that link at your own risk.
Naked Idiots On Ice? Heeheee!
Comment by benning @ 8/18/2007 - 7:22 pm
Coming soon: Swiss hospital facilities overwhelmed with pneumonia cases?
Comment by Leslie @ 8/18/2007 - 8:23 pm
All of our ancestors harvested the critters of the earth, and made moccasins, pants, shirts and hats from their skins to protect them from the frost. What planet did these aliens come from?
Comment by Tom TB @ 8/18/2007 - 9:16 pm
The guy in the fourth row, fifth from the right, is obviously having difficulty balancing conflicting messages, the cold of the ice and the heat of the company, most likely the blond.
The heat appears to be ahead, so to speak.
Comment by Bob Leibowitz @ 8/18/2007 - 9:42 pm
Reuters WNS….8/18/07, Switzerland….In other news, in a blow to the latest Greenpeace “Nude-out” involving upwards of 300 activists appearing naked on a Swiss glacier to call attention to the effects of global warming, local Union 542 of the Mountain Goats Brotherhood filed a brief in Swiss Magistrate court, charging the Greepeacers with “cruel and unusual visual abuse to animals”, citing the horrible vision of all those semi-washed naked bodies in one place.
A spokesman for the Union, speaking on condition of anonymity said; “Damn….havn’t these people ever heard of soap and water?”…. To which a group of gathered Union members replied in unison…”Naaaaahhhhhh….”. ….In sports….
- BBH -
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 8/18/2007 - 11:53 pm
Wow! Look at all those shivering weenies
Comment by CZ @ 8/19/2007 - 5:01 pm
Greenland used to be warmer due to the global warming from all of the infernal combustion engines used by the Romans. Then the Visigoths, led by their great chieftain Thor Algoedal, conquered the Romans, and ended the Romans’ carbon-abusive lifestyle, nature recovered, and Greenland returned to what should have been its natural state.
Comment by Dana @ 8/20/2007 - 7:06 am
I’ve got an idea…Mars is also experiencing global warming - the little green men must all be driving Escalades - and it’s even colder there. What say we ship all the naked moonbats on a Mars Explorer (calm down, Goracle, I mean the spacecraft, not the SUV) and turn them loose on the Martian polar icecaps?
Comment by Great White Rat @ 8/20/2007 - 8:40 am