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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.