“Taken together, the ice sheets in Greenland and
Antarctica have very likely been contributing to sea
level rise over 1993 to 2003.” IPCC 4th Assessment Report
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$268 bottle of water, anyone? Going once… going twice….
Just as growth in the US bottled water market is finally dropping off, Greenland has made the bewildering move to bottle and export 1 to 3,000 year old water that it will drill from icebergs. To add insult to environmental injury, Greenland will market its product as “sustainable.” Just how much marketing sense went into the idea to bottle the climate-induced melt from Greenland’s glaciers in plastic and ship it with a heavy carbon footprint stamped firmly into each “sustainable” bottle is anyone’s guess.
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