Comments on: The News Via The Blogosphere http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/05/the-news-via-the-blogosphere/ The official Web log for Great Decisions 2007 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:01:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: danny bloom http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/05/the-news-via-the-blogosphere/#comment-1254 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:15:09 +0000 http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/05/the-news-via-the-blogosphere/#comment-1254 This Twin Otter footage is what I'd like to start calling "a Twin Otter moment", a piece of video or film footage that wakes people up to the reality of global warming and how humans are playing a part in all this. If you go to minute 1:52 or so in this amazing video, you can see the shadow of the Twin Otter plane as the cameraman shoots out the window at the ice shelf in the distance, and for a few seconds, one sees the airplane's shadow against the white ice and as the plane zips by, one cannot help but marvel how, in the midst of this barren desolate ice shelf, a symbol of high-IQ, technology-savvy, fossil-fuel-burning "mankind" puts the entire story into perspective, a Twin Otter moment indeed. Who shot that video? He or she deserves an Oscar for that: "Best Short Twin Otter Moment" -- Danny Bloom in Taiwan, watching things from here This Twin Otter footage is what I’d like to start calling “a Twin Otter moment”, a piece of video or film footage that wakes people up to the reality of global warming and how humans are playing a part in all this.

If you go to minute 1:52 or so in this amazing video, you can see the shadow of the Twin Otter plane as the cameraman shoots out the window at the ice shelf in the distance, and for a few seconds, one sees the airplane’s shadow against the white ice and as the plane zips by, one cannot help but marvel how, in the midst of this barren desolate ice shelf, a symbol of high-IQ, technology-savvy, fossil-fuel-burning “mankind” puts the entire story into perspective, a Twin Otter moment indeed.

Who shot that video?

He or she deserves an Oscar for that: “Best Short Twin Otter Moment”

– Danny Bloom in Taiwan, watching things from here

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