Viridian Note

Viridian Note 00185: Disgorging Glaciers

Key concepts

melting glaciers, Viridian disasters, World Wars I and II

Attention Conservation Notice: Whimsical, yet somehow sickening.

Entries in the Viridian Magazine Cover Contest:

http://communities.msn.com/saluviridian http://www.stewarts.org/viridian/a_magazine.htm http://homepage.mac.com/greenmed/PhotoAlbum.html http://www.earthlight.co.nz/~bretts/vmag.jpg http://www.ratsbane.com/viridian/main.htm (((he's still adding entries!)) http://www.unclestu.com/Viridian/Cover/index.html http://www.dcat.net/viridian.htm http://www.accesscom.com/~jerome/viripropbig.jpg http://www.casema.net/~maup/viridian/cover2.html http://users.erols.com/ljaurbach/MagCover.htm http://way.nu/greens/cover.html http://www.gollygee.com/jblocksom/magazine.html

This contest expires in short order: August 31, 02000.

From:
rpuchalsky@worldnet.att.net^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^*******
(Richard Puchalsky)

Richard Puchalsky remarks:

((("Here's an opportunity for some disaster tourism, or maybe Viridian entrepreneurship == get people to tour the glacier edge to see what pops out.)))

Source

La Repubblica [Italian newspaper] (no date given)

"Glacial thaw reveals wartime 'city of ice' By Bruce Johnston in Rome

     "THE partial thawing of a glacier in north-eastern Italy as the result of a heatwave has revealed a 'city of ice' which Austro-Hungarian troops built inside it during the First World War.

     "Signs of an often talked about but never before seen nest of bunkers, barracks, cells, corridors and storage areas have come to light on one side of the Marmolada glacier in the Dolomites. Close by, fortifications built by the Italians to fight the Austro-Hungarians have also begun to appear.

     "Reports said the appearance of the city of ice and other wartime remains was the result of sustained temperatures of 50F (10C) at about 10,000ft above sea level, and probably also global warming.

     "On Monday the skeleton of a First World War soldier was found 8,850ft up on the Adamello glacier, near Vedretta di Lares, in Trentino. Last September another soldier's skeleton, complete with his cap and equipment, turned up on the nearby Presanella glacier."

(((Now for the good part: a melting glacier disgorges a Viridian Involuntary Park in a military Wexelblat Disaster.)))

     "In Adamello, 20,000 First World War bombs, 13,000 of them containing poison gas, have come to light. So far 6,300 have been dealt with.

     "A similar retreat of glaciers on Mont Blanc has recently uncovered pieces of Italian artillery dating from the Second World War and parts of an Air India Boeing 707 which crashed there in 1966.

     "Thawing in the Similaun glacier, north-west of Bolzano, led to the discovery in 1991 of a hunter who had lived 5,300 years ago."

(((That last glacier disgorgee would be the famous"Otzi", a dude with a rockin' sense of preindustrial design.))) http://www.angelfire.com/me/ij/oetzie.html http://tattoos.com/bronze.htm

(((Meanwhile, in what was once "Iceland":)))

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/24/iceland.bodies. ap/index.html

"Burial in Iceland for WWII airmen long lost on glacier

"August 24, 2000 "Web posted at: 7:43 a.m. EDT (1143 GMT)

     "REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) == The bodies of four World War II airmen, trapped in an Icelandic glacier for nearly 60 years and revealed by melting ice, will at last be buried at a cemetery in Reykjavik. (...)

     "Last summer in Iceland was the warmest for many years and the ice melted, revealing the crash site to (((museum curator Hardur))) Geirsson and his colleagues in the Iceland Historical Aviation Society.

     "'We were shocked to find wreckage, small sad human remains and personal possessions, all perfectly preserved by the ice,' said Geirsson. There was a toothbrush, a collar with the name of one of the airmen inside, and a wallet. (...)

     "The exact wreckage site has not been revealed by either the British or Icelandic authorities to prevent trophy hunters from visiting the scene."

O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O NO MORE COLD WAR O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O

Key concepts

melting glaciers, Viridian disasters, World Wars I and II

Attention Conservation Notice: Whimsical, yet somehow sickening.

Entries in the Viridian Magazine Cover Contest:

http://communities.msn.com/saluviridian http://www.stewarts.org/viridian/a_magazine.htm http://homepage.mac.com/greenmed/PhotoAlbum.html http://www.earthlight.co.nz/~bretts/vmag.jpg http://www.ratsbane.com/viridian/main.htm (((he's still adding entries!)) http://www.unclestu.com/Viridian/Cover/index.html http://www.dcat.net/viridian.htm http://www.accesscom.com/~jerome/viripropbig.jpg http://www.casema.net/~maup/viridian/cover2.html http://users.erols.com/ljaurbach/MagCover.htm http://way.nu/greens/cover.html http://www.gollygee.com/jblocksom/magazine.html

This contest expires in short order: August 31, 02000.

From:
rpuchalsky@worldnet.att.net^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^*******
(Richard Puchalsky)

Richard Puchalsky remarks:

((("Here's an opportunity for some disaster tourism, or maybe Viridian entrepreneurship == get people to tour the glacier edge to see what pops out.)))

Source

La Repubblica [Italian newspaper] (no date given)

"Glacial thaw reveals wartime 'city of ice' By Bruce Johnston in Rome

"THE partial thawing of a glacier in north-eastern Italy as the result of a heatwave has revealed a 'city of ice' which Austro-Hungarian troops built inside it during the First World War.

"Signs of an often talked about but never before seen nest of bunkers, barracks, cells, corridors and storage areas have come to light on one side of the Marmolada glacier in the Dolomites. Close by, fortifications built by the Italians to fight the Austro-Hungarians have also begun to appear.

"Reports said the appearance of the city of ice and other wartime remains was the result of sustained temperatures of 50F (10C) at about 10,000ft above sea level, and probably also global warming.

"On Monday the skeleton of a First World War soldier was found 8,850ft up on the Adamello glacier, near Vedretta di Lares, in Trentino. Last September another soldier's skeleton, complete with his cap and equipment, turned up on the nearby Presanella glacier."

(((Now for the good part: a melting glacier disgorges a Viridian Involuntary Park in a military Wexelblat Disaster.)))

"In Adamello, 20,000 First World War bombs, 13,000 of them containing poison gas, have come to light. So far 6,300 have been dealt with.

"A similar retreat of glaciers on Mont Blanc has recently uncovered pieces of Italian artillery dating from the Second World War and parts of an Air India Boeing 707 which crashed there in 1966.

"Thawing in the Similaun glacier, north-west of Bolzano, led to the discovery in 1991 of a hunter who had lived 5,300 years ago."

(((That last glacier disgorgee would be the famous"Otzi", a dude with a rockin' sense of preindustrial design.))) http://www.angelfire.com/me/ij/oetzie.html http://tattoos.com/bronze.htm

(((Meanwhile, in what was once "Iceland":)))

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/24/iceland.bodies. ap/index.html

"Burial in Iceland for WWII airmen long lost on glacier

"August 24, 2000 "Web posted at: 7:43 a.m. EDT (1143 GMT)

"REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) == The bodies of four World War II airmen, trapped in an Icelandic glacier for nearly 60 years and revealed by melting ice, will at last be buried at a cemetery in Reykjavik. (...)

"Last summer in Iceland was the warmest for many years and the ice melted, revealing the crash site to (((museum curator Hardur))) Geirsson and his colleagues in the Iceland Historical Aviation Society.

"'We were shocked to find wreckage, small sad human remains and personal possessions, all perfectly preserved by the ice,' said Geirsson. There was a toothbrush, a collar with the name of one of the airmen inside, and a wallet. (...)

"The exact wreckage site has not been revealed by either the British or Icelandic authorities to prevent trophy hunters from visiting the scene."

O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
NO MORE COLD WAR
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O