Plastic sheet saves Swiss glacier from meltdown: "It is one of Switzerland's most picturesque ski resorts. But over the past two decades the Gurschen glacier above the village of Andermatt has been melting... Now, however, the resort's organisers have come up with a novel way of protecting their mountain from global warming - they have wrapped it in clingfilm. Yesterday workmen were putting the finishing touches to a 2,500sq metre (26,900sq ft) plastic sheet which has been wrapped over a stretch of ice used by skiers to get from the cable-car station to the mountain's ski-routes."
Now I might not be the best judge of this, but wouldn't putting a giant sheet of plastic wrap over a glacier perhaps make it melt... faster? I'm not one to mess with the Swiss so I won't say anything.
