What Worries Iceland? A World Without Ice. It Is Preparing.
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What Worries Iceland? A World Without Ice. It Is Preparing.
As rising temperatures drastically reshape Icelands landscape, businesses
and the government are spending millions for survival and profit.
By Liz Alderman, Aug. 9, 2019, NY Times
HÖFN, Iceland €” From the offices of the fishing operation founded by his
family two generations ago, Adalsteinn Ingólfsson has watched the massive
Vatnajökull glacier shrink year after year. Rising temperatures have
already winnowed the types of fish he can catch.
Good that it took an Icelander to teach me a new word
Pity that it doesn't mean what he mean it to me
Dictionary says "to blow a current of air through in order to remove the
chaff" (that's literally, not metaphorically)
tim
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