Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The President of Iceland is concerned that his people don’t seem to be taking global warming seriously.
In Iceland, global warming no longer a joke: president
Sophie Hares
MARCH 11, 2018
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Icelanders have long joked that global warming was something people on the chilly Nordic island could look forward to, but as ice caps and glaciers melt at record speeds, that gag is wearing thin, according to the country’s president.
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“The common joke in Iceland is to say that on this cold and windy, rain-swept island, global warming is something we should cheer for – but it’s no longer funny,” Johannesson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
“Climate change affects us all on this globe, but you can see the effects in particular in the northern regions – the ice cap around the North Pole is melting at record rates, the oceans there are getting warmer,” he said.
On the flip side, climate change could bring some economic benefits to the country of just 340,000 people, which would become a natural trade hub if new routes opened up from Asia to the Atlantic due to melting Arctic ice, he said.
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Johannesson was speaking on the sidelines of the World Ocean Summit in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen on Friday, where environmentalists, politicians and business leaders met to discuss how to improve the state of the oceans.
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I wonder if any of the climate scientists or politicians who attended the Playa del Carmen event also attended the “Cities and Climate Change” event earlier this month in snowy Edmonton? Or was the Edmonton conference an entirely separate group of climate scientists and politicians?
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As opposed to joking about the fact that Iceland has a President?
Is he a cool cat or does he have a frosty disposition?
He needs to chill out.
New eco-nut demand:
Any people laughing or making fun of Gorebullcrap warming should have their tongues cut out.
Pretty much…..
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Snow is pouring down outside my window, as I type this in central North Carolina, USA.
… the end of … “the end of snow” ? I sense a photo op coming on. A couple more inches, and I’ll break out the camera. Time to suit up.
My daughter is in the RDU area, experiencing the same late snow.
Here’s a pic I took today:
Nice pic Robert thanks.
Happening hear in SE VA.
Dang, hear = here, although the flakes are so big, I can hear them.
How do all of these idiots get elected???? What happened to people’s brains?
Perhaps they have been placed in Al Gore’s lockbox.
ANSWER: They get ELECTED by idiots.
Iceland is a beautiful country occupied by really nice people. I would encourage everyone to visit if they can afford it. One of the greatest thrills in my lifetime was to stand on a glacier with an active volcano bubbling and steaming under the glacier. As for trees, they were cut down to fuel steamships sailing between North America and Europe. They are trying to reforest Iceland by planting Douglas fir. A friend was a pilot for Iceland Air. He volunteered to drop seeds from his personal aircraft.
As a side note, the first story in Dr. Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear” involves U.S. environmental activists unsuccessfully trying to bribe and then browbeat an Icelandic geophysicist into withdrawing a paper that countered the declining glaciers narrative.
Over 30% of Iceland’s economy is tourism based. Tourists really can only get there by jet. Does she want everyone to stop coming to Iceland?
Is it really joking?
I think they may be somewhat serious.
Communist revolutionaries have long been famous for their humorlessness.
Iceland could do a better job with emissions targets if it would discourage travelers from coming there to sight see and view the norther lights. And were they proactive or reactive at questioning the Icelandic bottled water marketing during the height of the premium bottled water craze?
“I wonder if any of the climate scientists or politicians who attended the Playa del Carmen event also attended the “Cities and Climate Change” event earlier this month in snowy Edmonton? Or was the Edmonton conference an entirely separate group of climate scientists and politicians?”
It couldn’t be the same group – traveling from Canada to Mexico they would have experienced too rapid an increase in temperature and would have expired.
So this child-molestor, scum-sucking lawyer, and warmunist died in a plane crash and were at the pearly gates being interviewed by St. Peter:
St. Peter asks the child molestor; what have you done with your life, and he tells him he molested children, and St. Peter tells him to enter, and that he’s forgiven.
Next he asks the scum-sucking lawyer what he’s done, and he tells him, and St. Peter tells him to enter, he’s forgiven.
Then he asks the warmunist what he’s done. The warmunist proceeds to lie, proudly pronouncing how he’s helped save the planet by denouncing CO2, predicting climate doom if man doesn’t change his ways etc.
St. Peter tells him, “I’m sorry, but you can’t come in”.
“Why not”? the warmunist wails.
“Because”, St. Peter says, being opposed to CO2, which is a life-giving gas good for all life on Earth, you’ve been part of a death cult, and we don’t take your kind here. I’m sure you’ll find plenty of “global warming” where you’re going though.
+1 👍
Iceland’s President is the guy in the Josh’s Paris COP cartoon asking “Where’s my money?”
It is only ‘politicians’ who DO take this voodoo cult nonsense seriously. The current set of Liberal/Globalist lunatics across Europe appear to be on the wane though so let us hope Iceland soon dump their own.
Will they talk about this?…..
http://www.climate4you.com/images/NOAA%20SST-NorthAtlantic%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1979%20With37monthRunningAverage.gif
1) N. Atlantic only
2) We’ve spent plenty of time talking about how the earth cooled until the late 70’s early 90’s and the recent El Nino.
I’ve been in Iceland several times, and travelled extensively there. Talking to local people, I’ve noticed that they were complaining about unusual cold and about “much more snow than usual.” They were not joking, they were genuinely concerned about not having a bit of the promised warming, which would help them a lot. But even in Iceland, it seems, politicians are liars and/or idiots. I know a solution to this problem but they would come and kill me if I tell you.
Enough of this nonsense. Bjork for President of Iceland! The most famous Icelander
Check out the Energy Consumption per Capita numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita
Using the more complete 2103 numbers Iceland is a close second to Qatar with 18,177 kilogram of oil equivalent (kgoe) per capita.
The evil, polluting US is at 6,916 of kilogram of oil equivalent (kgoe) per capita.
Perhaps the President should welcome a bit of Globul Warming to enable him to not be a world leader in energy consumption?