I can see all these people sitting around a table with their Evian water and free range salad patting themselves on the back after thinking of this one…….
Germans try to slow glacier melt with giant screen
German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday.”We hope our installations will bring about a net cooling of the area. And if the melt is not stopped, that it is at least slowed,” the project’s leader, geography professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs, said in a statement.
The structure, 15 metres long and three metres high (49 feet by 10 feet), was raised in the middle of the Rhone glacier in Switzerland’s southwestern Valais region by 27 students from the German university.
The purpose of the screen — which sits at an altitude of 2,300 metres — is to keep cold winds over the glacier.
Wow… How incredibly lame is that. 49ft. by 10 ft..!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A conversation overheard between some researchers:
(You’ll have to insert your own German Accent here)
Researcher 1: Dude, you know how when you’re smokin’ weed in the dorm and you put a towel under the door to keep the smell from getting out?
Researcher 2: Uhhhh yeah…
Researcher 1: Well let’s try putting up a blanky over the mountain pass to keep the cold air in. Isn’t that the same thing?
Researcher 2: Uhhhh yeah…..
Researcher 1: Well let’s get some government money and do it.
Researcher 2: Dude….. Did you just drink the bong water?
*Barfing sound*
Researcher 2: Whoa….. That was narly… What year is it???
I still find it fascinating that people can believe these wackjobs and totally buy into it. I’ll be waiting for our government to try to implement something like this at a cost of about 1 billion dollars.
Maybe if these dingbats are lucky, AlGore will fly over in a jet to autograph the thing and possibly hand out complimentary carbon credits to these brainiacs…..