"What is dead is some massive cap-and-trade system that regulates carbon in a fashion that drives up energy costs," he said.
Robots and golf balls and even the massive capping dome all seem small in retrospect.
This eight-day adventure takes in an impressive array of what the island offers: you start with a warm-up walk to Strútsfoss, a thunderous 100m waterfall, then explore deeper into the country with an ascent of 1,833m Snæfell, a snow-capped peak that gives extensive panoramas of Vatnajökull, Iceland's massive ice cap, and Bárðarbunga, a volcano that erupted in 2014 and continues to grumble.
Vast new deposits of minerals and gems are being discovered as Greenland's massive ice cap recedes, forming the basis of a potentially lucrative mining industry.
Moreover, Thompson has documented runaway melting at Quelccaya, a massive ice cap in the Andes of Peru.
He explored iceberg-dotted fjords that gave way to gentle valleys, and silver lakes that shimmered below the massive ice cap.
A team led by hydrospheric scientist William Krabill of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, used a laser altimeter to survey the ice height over southern Greenland by flying 400 meters above the massive ice cap.
I've already frozen my knackers off, and the tops of my thumbs and fingers have started to split from the nano-seconds of exposure when I doffed a glove to take a photo, creating nice bloody miniature versions of the crevasses that streak the massive ice cap.
When teams redo a number of contracts, it can give them massive salary-cap relief.
