IceSpace — More Like the Ice Follies
by Warren McLaren, Sydney 
on 04.28.06
The slogan goes: “Global Warming stole the Ice Age. We’re stealing it back!” * Yeh, right. Let’s take a moment to ponder the global warming contribution that results from shipping 200 tonnes of frozen deoxygenated water from Canada to London to make a pub you can only stay in for an hour. Or the CO2 emissions obtained by keeping the ice chilled to -5oC with “constantly running refrigeration units.” Oh, and let’s not forget that “fresh ice will be shipped in from Canada to replace the palace and the sculptures as they melt in their progress from city to city.” Yep, it’s heading off on a little touring holiday to Barcelona and Berlin. At the height of the European summer, as all good ice bars should. Look, we’re pleased that the charity WaterAid will be sent 50p from every ticket sold (Adult £21), but this flight of lunacy, scheduled to open next month, has to rank right up there with Ski Dubai. ::IceSpace [Flash Alert!]. via Reuters.
* [ If global warming stays its current course, then the Atlantic Gulf Stream is likely to slow, and in the not too distant future Britain may well be able to make one of these follies again. But this time with local ice. Would that make the above slogan ironic or idiotic?]
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Right on. I work literally five minutes away from this ridiculous thing. I'll go over on my lunchbreak next week one day and try to film someone responsible, see if they can explain themselves! Citizen journalism rules, eh?
Go for it Rik. We await your findings with vapoured breath.
Yeah man (said in the voice of Neil the Hippie)..
By the way In northen Sweden we have those things without refrigeration aid... Not that I live that far up north though...
this is just soooo stupid. up in quebec we have ice hotels in the wintertime but thats because its cold enough(!) if you really want them in London-- wait a few more years till the gulf stream flips and you can have all the ice pubs you want :p
Speaking of Bunk: “Global Warming stole the Ice Age. We’re stealing it back!" obviously these people know marketing (atleast slighly) better than they know climatology. Because if you look at the CO2 concentrations
at the end of the last interglacial period, 120000 YBP, you can clearly see a spike in CO2 right before we plunged into an Ice Age...
Rik
I thank you in advance for letting them know how unenvironmental this thing is.
Its gone bust now anyways!