Apparently, many Japanese people are blissfully unaware that there is any difference between the distant yet distinct European landmasses of Ireland and Iceland; the problem stems from the rather similar phonetic pronunciation of their words ‘Aiulanndo’ (Ireland) and ‘Aisulando’ (Iceland). But, if current climate scaremongering upon the Emerald Isle is accurate, the tongue-tied Japs may have been correct all along, with Dublin set to become every bit as frozen as the ice-caps above downtown Reykjavik sometime within the next 25-50 years.
Iceland – sorry, I mean Ireland, I’m starting to turn Japanese myself here, now – is currently governed by a coalition between the Fine Gaolers, the Fianna Fáilures and the Greens, with the latter having naturally landed the plum role of Climate Minister for their own TD (what the Irish call MPs), in the shape of a man named Eamon Ryan. In an op-ed for the Irish Times on September 3rd, Ryan warned that, thanks to alterations in the Atlantic Gulf Stream caused by climate change, by the middle of this century, Ireland could become an icy, snow-bound wasteland, like Star Wars’ Planet Hoth, but with more potatoes. Ryan tweeted pure hyperbole as follows on the day his newspaper article went out:
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