A new brand of water
February 15, 2010 (Monday)
P-s-s-s-t, hey, buddy, wanna buy a piece of Greenland? Bits of it are for sale, you know. As chunks of ice from Greenland’s melting glaciers fall into the ocean, the ice is captured by heavy equipment, taken onto vessels, cleaned and bottled. It will appear on your grocery shelf beside the other expensive bottled water containers.
Of course, it’s always been available, but, in the past, people didn’t buy much bottled water. Now they do, and there is a market for it.
Meanwhile, the controversy over climate change and global warming continues. The scientist whose research and statistics are the basis for the climate alerts and warnings is reportedly saying that there has been no warming since 1993. But he has a difficult time proving his conclusions because, although a good man with a reputation for integrity, he is not very good at keeping records, and a lot of his information has been misplaced among the piles of papers in his office.
As for me, I don’t know as much about climate as I would like to know before saying anything about global warming one way or another. The present harsh winter seems to say there is no global warming, but the climatologists say the strength of these winter storms is a result of the gradual warming of the earth.
Meanwhile, have a nice cool drink of Greenland glacier water. It was frozen for you for thousands of years. Now that’s an aged drink.