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Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents

https://archive.is/mGnUr

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In the same time it looks like the following is happening as well.

Elite cocktail bars in the UAE have a new way to draw in customers: luxury ice from arctic glaciers - Business Insider

  • A company in Greenland called Arctic Ice is harvesting ice from the country's shrinking glaciers.

  • The company sells the "purest ice in the world" to elite cocktail bars in Dubai to chill drinks.

  • Greenland's ice sheet has been melting at an alarming pace in recent years.
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[–] glimse 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The purest ice is made in a lab

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That sounds very plausible.

Still, the luxury ice article kinda reminded me of something that a friend of mine says:
Capitalism will exist until the last oxygen bottle is sold to one of the richest people left.

Of course, I totally do hope they are wrong.