Watching Greenland melt from Paris

CNN ^ | 12-8-15 | John Sutter

[smokingfrog]

Olafur Eliasson, an Icelandic-Danish artist who lassoed and transported tons of ice from Greenland to Paris for a new climate change-inspired exhibit, bets you haven't.

"The truth is the ice is amazing. It's so touching to look at," he told me, standing in front of 12 hunks of Greenland that glittered blue-white in front of the Pantheon in Paris. The ice blocks -- totaling nearly 100 tons, he told me -- are arranged in the shape of a clock. You can see streaks of air and tiny bubbles in the ice. Put your ear to it, as I did at Eliasson's suggestion, and you hear a faint crackling sound. "It's a little concert," he said. "It's a little ice concert."

The outdoor exhibit, called Paris Ice Watch, is meant to focus the world's attention on the increasingly ephemeral nature of these amazing ice hunks. Not too far away, in a Parisian suburb, officials from 195 countries are meeting at the U.N. COP21 climate change summit to try to figure out how to curb the most disastrous consequences of global warming.

Paris Ice Watch is a reminder that the ice is melting as they talk.

[smokingfrog]

Anyone for some ice worship?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

They watch ice while ISIS rolls on.

[billyboy15]

Personally when I see this ice my eyes well up and I feel a “longing” and a tightening of my shorts.

[central_va]

In a world gone insane ........

[cardinal4]

These people are certifiable..

[central_va]

Where’s Femen when you need them?

[Argus]

Meanwhile in Iceland, a suddenly homeless polar bear family is crying, because this lousy SOB stole their floe.

[Night Hides Not]

Personally when I see this ice my eyes well up and I feel a “longing” and a tightening of my shorts.

If I were in Paris, I'd bring my ice pick, and prepare my drinking glass for a Tanqueray & Tonic.

[cardinal4]

Polling consistently shows Americans just don’t see this as the threat the moonbats do. Yet they persist..

[Uncle Miltie]

This is impossible.

John Kerry told us so.

[Night Hides Not]

Meanwhile in Iceland, a suddenly homeless polar bear family is crying, because this lousy SOB stole their floe.

[Night Hides Not]

They watch ice while ISIS rolls on.

They watch ice melt while ISIS rolls on.

[Jeff Chandler]

[rdcbn]

In a world gone insane ........

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This is what happens when people become indoctrinated with PC mind think and are taught to reject the values of Western Civilization and refrain from rational logic and critical thinking and instead rely on irrational and emotional thinking

[Night Hides Not]

"It's a little concert," he said. "It's a little ice concert."

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The truth is the ice is amazing. It's so touching to look at," he told me

I wonder if the farmers, whose plots were covered by ice the last time it advanced over Greenland so that they couldn't grow crops anymore, thought the same thing.

[smokingfrog]

What is that supposed to be?

[joshua c]

Its kind of like watching the grass grow. Amazing! /s

[SamAdams76]

Did I read this correctly? They are removing ice from Greenland and transporting it to Europe, just so they can see it melt?

[moehoward]