Icebergs don’t normally make it as far south as Glasgow, however one has, simply in time for the UN Local weather Change convention, COP26.
Shipped in by scientific activist group Arctic Basecamp to spotlight the significance of Arctic ice to international climate programs to the negotiators attempting to achieve a deal to halt ever warming temperatures within the assembly rooms close by.
“The Arctic is in disaster and that’s not simply dangerous information for the polar bear,” Professor Gail Whiteman, founding father of Arctic Basecamp instructed Reuters, “that’s dangerous information for international locations and societies in all places.”
“If we lose the snow and ice within the Arctic we are going to amplify international warming by 25 to 40 p.c. So it’s one eco-region that packs an enormous punch and we felt that negotiators right here needed to really come nose to nose with the Arctic so we introduced the iceberg,” Whiteman stated.
The 4000kg stunt is meant to remind negotiators what they’re attempting to realize, Whiteman stated.
“Our message is that this iceberg is simply the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the local weather emergency,” she stated.
“This iceberg simply goes to maintain melting whatever the negotiations that they give you on the finish of subsequent week. Nonetheless, maybe in the event that they give you an excellent settlement, we are going to cease different icebergs melting,” she stated.
The group are additionally presenting the COP with what they name a bottled warning. A bottle of clear melted ice water, labelled
“70 million of those bottles a second are melting off the Greenland ice sheet, based mostly on the analysis that’s been finished. And what else can we are saying? It is a bottled warning and so they cant ignore this in order that’s why we’ve introduced the iceberg and the water to Glasgow,” Whiteman stated holding a one litre bottle.
Whiteman stated the iceberg got here by ship from Greenland through Iceland to the east coast of England after which onward on a truck with it’s carbon footprint offset, in fact.