We're saved. Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer #agw

Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com 21 Sep '12, 9pm

We're saved. Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer #agw

In 1818, the farmers who ranged cattle on the steep mountainsides above Brig, a small town in southern Switzerland, organized a religious procession to deter a looming catastrophe. They marched from the church up a steep valley to the Aletsch, the largest glacier in the Alps. The 16-mile-long river of ice, 3,000 feet deep at its center, was fed by the endless snows falling on the two-mile-high ramparts of the Aletschhorn, Jungfrau, Munch, and adjacent peaks. Through more than a century of unusually cold weather, glaciers throughout Europe had been advancing steadily, and now the great, grinding mass of the Aletsch was uprooting a forest and threatening to overwhelm the farmers’ summer cottages and cow pastures. Priests led the way to the glacier’s gravel-encrusted snout. They prayed for divine intervention. A tall wooden cross was planted in the earth to turn back the ice....

Full article: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/glacier-retr...

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@gbaker13 » 24 Sep '12, 5pm
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@theobserver » 24 Sep '12, 2pm
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@pdbuckland » 23 Sep '12, 10pm
Let's do some glacier dances. Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link]
@EarleenDevine » 22 Sep '12, 9pm
Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link] Oh yeah ... that'll do a lot of good.
@jenmac1960 » 22 Sep '12, 2pm
RT @beleagueredst: Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link] // Screw the prayers, stop bur ...
@IdiotTracker » 22 Sep '12, 12pm
When they say "no regrets" mitigation: Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Ice Prayer [link] #green #climate
@beleagueredst » 22 Sep '12, 11am
Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link] // Screw the prayers, stop burning fossil fuels!
@incertameter » 22 Sep '12, 6am
Perhaps the Pope fears climate change as glacier retreat prompts Vatican approval of a new Alpine ice prayer [link]
@Rob_Sisson » 22 Sep '12, 2am
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@APBBlue » 22 Sep '12, 1am
@liberalandold I accidentally got myself onto a New York Times blog. :D [link]
@letat_lechat » 22 Sep '12, 12am
Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link] | OR we could use science. | #Climate
@myownpetard » 21 Sep '12, 11pm
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@JodyJodyWhite » 21 Sep '12, 10pm
The vatican deliberated on a special prayer to stop a glacier. Now they pray that it comes back. Seriously [link] #agw"
@Garvin1313 » 21 Sep '12, 9pm
Yeah, that should take care of it. "Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer." [link]
@APBBlue » 21 Sep '12, 9pm
I accidentally got myself in NYT. "@Revkin: Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link] #agw"
@SnowHydro » 21 Sep '12, 9pm
#Glaciology + #religion? via @jfleck RT @Revkin Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link]
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Should do it! RT@drgrist:We're saved. RT@Revkin: Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link] #agw
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@drgrist » 21 Sep '12, 9pm
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@APBBlue » 21 Sep '12, 9pm
How bout contraception approval instead? RT @Revkin: Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer [link]
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@CandaceTX » 21 Sep '12, 9pm
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@iMim4 » 21 Sep '12, 9pm
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