Former New York mayor — and possible 2020 presidential candidate — Michael Bloomberg has flown several giant blocks of ice from Greenland to London for a public demonstration on how “climate change” affects the polar ice caps.
The blocks of ice, you see, melt in London’s warmer weather, as ice is wont to do when temperatures hover above freezing.
Bloomberg timed the ice display to coincide with a United Nations international colloquium on climate change held earlier this month in Poland. That gathering, known as the “COP,” is designed to help nations come together to “solve” the global climate “crisis,” and Bloomberg, it seems, was doing his part by showing Londoners that ice can melt when the weather gets warmer.
Public art reminds us that it’s possible to think differently and boldly. With #COP24 underway in Poland, our hope is that #IceWatchLondon, a public art piece by @OlafurEliasson with support from @BloombergDotOrg, will inspire new action on climate. https://t.co/FhikCUzM7v pic.twitter.com/nDhq4y6nIw
— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) December 11, 2018
Ice Watch is coming to London! #icewatchlondon
24 blocks of glacial ice will be arranged in a circular grove on Bankside outside @tate, and six additional blocks outside Bloomberg's European headquarters @BloombergDotOrg
Follow the journey of the ice: https://t.co/t10pSyxsvH pic.twitter.com/MgNSFQfaWq— StudioOlafurEliasson (@olafureliasson) December 6, 2018
There’s just one problem — or, at least, there’s one major irony. The ice chunks had to be flown from Greenland to London using specially designed devices. Once in London, they were dropped, then arranged in a “circular garden,” but not before Bloomberg and his colleagues spent thousands — and emitted thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — getting the chunks from one place to another. – READ MORE