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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Hundreds Get Naked on Glacier to Expose Climate Change

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Leftie stupidity on “display”

Hundreds Bare All on Glacier in Global Warming Protest

Nearly 600 volunteers stripped before the camera on a melting Swiss glacier high in the Alps on Saturday as part of a publicity campaign to expose the impact of climate change.

The eco-conscious volunteers turned up under blue skies near the foot of the Aletsch glacier, a protected UNESCO World Heritage site.

Environmental group Greenpeace commissioned the photo shoot from world renowned photographer Spencer Tunick.

“Their numbers are close to 600,” Nicolas de Roten of Greenpeace Switzerland told AFP. “It’s relatively chilly but that doesn’t seem to be disturbing them.”

The campaign is aimed at drawing attention to melting Alpine glaciers, one clear sign of global warming and of man-made climate change, according to the group.

Greenpeace says the human body is as fragile as glaciers like the Aletsch in southern Switzerland and the world’s environment. The glacier itself is now shrinking by about 100 metres (110 yards) a year.

“I want my images to go more than skin-deep. I want the viewers to feel the vulnerability of their existence and how it relates closely to the sensitivity of the world’s glaciers,” Tunick said.

The group hopes its billboard and poster campaign showing people exposed to the cold will send a shiver down the spines of public opinion and politicians, and convince them to do more to tackle pollution and climate change.

“They’ll be used at the right moment for our campaign, in Switzerland first and then worldwide,” de Roten said from the location, about an hour’s hike from the village of Bettmeralp.

Tunick split the men and women into two groups of about 300 for separate shots on or around the lower end of the spectacular 23 kilometre long (14 miles) sweeping ice floe, at an altitude of about 2,300 metres (7545 feet).

Dressed in hiking gear, they stripped for minutes at a time, watched at a distance by a clump of media photographers and journalists.

While cooler than the valley below, temperatures were well above freezing—about 10 to 15 degrees Celsius (50 to 60 Fahrenheit).

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I guess this glacier isn’t “protected” from these nuts and their butts.  Oh well.

Let’s do the math:  100 meters a year, 23,000 meters of glacier, summertime.  So, if it stays summertime for 230 years straight, the glacier will be gone.  How likely is that?

Besides, the body warmth of those crazies must be doing some damage, but I guess it’s always about “do as I say, not as I do” with the lefties.

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They should have left these naked morons out on the glacier for several hours.  The mental instability of these people is evident in how they think that being naked projects a positive message instead of demonstrating how deranged and loony they are.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on August 20, 2007 at 04:47 am

It amazes me how many smart people can be so stupid. I officially nominate this group for a SAB dunce award. Wait, I am almost afraid to see what they would wear (or not wear)to the ceremony.  The image of naked granolas just isn’t my idea of a pleasant time.


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Anna on August 20, 2007 at 08:04 am
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On the other hand, the sight of 300 men yelling “Shrinkage!” could have been amusing!



Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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Proof on August 20, 2007 at 08:09 am

And what would the naked women be hollering?  Oh, yuk??


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docdave on August 20, 2007 at 08:32 am
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And what would the naked women be hollering?  Oh, yuk??

I remember Tennessee Ernie Ford on a talk show a few years back, discussing women going topless. Ol’ Ern spoke about

“lookin’ like a sack full of doorknobs”

which wonderful imagery stays with me to this day!


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Proof on August 20, 2007 at 11:02 am

Yeah, proof, ol’ Ernie could really turn a phrase.  Ain’t nothing like getting down to basics too.


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docdave on August 20, 2007 at 11:12 am

Oddly, I was going to make a comment about how arousing this stimulating event would be for the tree huggies but, a reference to wood may be deemed inappropriate.
Although, the temp was quite nippy where they took their stance ...and I am sure we all agree, whatever position they may hold, it’s a good cause, none the less. After all, far be it from us, to stop them from freezing their silly lily white asses off!
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Anna on August 20, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Anna: Get thee to a punnery!


"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

robert108 on August 20, 2007 at 03:02 pm
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I was looking for a “Disney on Ice” type reference, but this will have to do...underwearonicesc6.jpg
underwear on ice



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Proof on August 20, 2007 at 03:25 pm

Sigh....can somebody tel me just what good lying down naked on a glacier will do? Other that getting the photographer’s jollies because he conned all those fools into getting naked for him, that is....great scam he’s got going, come to think of it.

Hey, babe, wanna get naked and let me take your picture? It’s for the environment, you see.

Why didn’t I think of that?


The future ain’t what it used to be.....

Pilgrim on August 21, 2007 at 09:14 am
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just what good lying down naked on a glacier will do

It’s green to be blue!



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Proof on August 21, 2007 at 09:50 am

Oh for heavens sakes Proof .. if you’re going to flash the flesh at least get some girls with a little to flaunt. These girls have to be together just to make a one. Why do you think it’s called “figure” skating
rolleyes


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Anna on August 21, 2007 at 10:49 am
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