Melting Glaciers Making Really Nice Ice Cubes for the Inuit

GREENLAND–Last year, a melting glacier known as the Petermann glacier calved off a sizable chunk of ice approximately twice the size of Manhattan.

And the Inuit couldn’t be happier.

Apparently, the Greenlandic natives have been benefiting from global warming trends for quite some time. Much of the ice that has been breaking off of these glaciers is going directly into their handmade water pouches.

“Oh yeah. It’s the yak’s pajamas!” said local fisherman Imnek. “When life gives us lemons, we make glacially iced lemonade. You should try some.”

Scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (a branch of the United Nations located in Geneva, Switzerland) are almost unanimous in their consensus as to the chief cause; though a few have noted that the Earth has gone through warming and cooling periods before and that things may not be as dire as some are predicting.

However, the rest of his tribe remain unfazed and are fairly certain that the Inuit people will be fine, regardless of what may happen.

“That’s right,” offered one level-headed yak herder. “We just go with the floe. If the Earth warms and waters rise, then we’ll live in boats. If it cools and everything freezes again, then the world is our igloo.”

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