Dear person who wrote that article: This has fuck-all to do with global warming sceptics. Dedicating the first and last of that article's six paragraphs to the subject is either a terribly lame attempt at humour, for which you should be embarrassed, or you simply having nothing interesting to say about glaciers that doesn't involve the climate change controversy, for which you should also be embarrassed. What I'm trying to get across here is: SHAME. You should experience it.
On topic... Wait, no, sorry, I have nothing to say that is on topic. I'm just annoyed at Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent for The Guardian, and his possible lack of shame for shoehorning controversial topics into a barely related article on some weird guy who steals ice for what are probably not very good reasons.
Also, 5,200kg of ice have a volume of around 5800 litres. That would fit in a cube with a side of 1.8m (six feet, for you non-metric devils). The glacier retreats half a mile a year. How many of those cubes can you fit into half a mile of glacier, hm? I'm guessing lots. I'm not about to compliment the collective intellect of climate change deniers, but even they would be ashamed to use that argument. Well, those of them that know how to work a calculator. Probably.
Yeah, still nothing on topic to say.
