Greenpeace Builds Replica of Noah's Ark
Is this vessel commissioned by GOD [Imagine that[:0]]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat-where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood-in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday.
Turkish and German volunteer carpenters are making the wooden ship on the mountain in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran. The ark will be revealed in a ceremony on May 31, a day after Greenpeace activists climb the mountain and call on world leaders to take action to tackle climate change, Greenpeace said.
"Climate change is real, it's happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times," said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici. "Those leaders have a mandate from the people ... to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now."
Many countries are struggling to address global and national standards for carbon emissions. U.N. delegates are meeting this week in Germany to prepare for December negotiations on a new set of international rules for controlling emissions. The new accord would succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012.
Climate change will also be on the agenda when the Group of Eight major industrialized countries-the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia-meet in Germany in June.
Noah's ark is the boat built by the Biblical character Noah. At the command of God, according to the story, Noah was to build a boat that could accommodate his extended family, about 50,000 species of animals, and about one million species of insects.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat-where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood-in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday.
Turkish and German volunteer carpenters are making the wooden ship on the mountain in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran. The ark will be revealed in a ceremony on May 31, a day after Greenpeace activists climb the mountain and call on world leaders to take action to tackle climate change, Greenpeace said.
"Climate change is real, it's happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times," said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici. "Those leaders have a mandate from the people ... to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now."
Many countries are struggling to address global and national standards for carbon emissions. U.N. delegates are meeting this week in Germany to prepare for December negotiations on a new set of international rules for controlling emissions. The new accord would succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012.
Climate change will also be on the agenda when the Group of Eight major industrialized countries-the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia-meet in Germany in June.
Noah's ark is the boat built by the Biblical character Noah. At the command of God, according to the story, Noah was to build a boat that could accommodate his extended family, about 50,000 species of animals, and about one million species of insects.
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Here is a picture! 
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Talk about a fariy tale. 0 -
not true. there was some kind of rock formation in a satellite photo that looked like noah's ark, and the turkish government wouldn't even let archaeologists go up there to look. they sure as hell wouldn't let some yoyos go up there to build another one. 0 -
greenpeace is also the only one to have done anything about killing the rest of the worlds whales so some idiot can have something different for dinner 0 -
Greenpeace has secured the first two male/female pair for the adventure, it was announced today. The pair of asses was coaxed there by dangling money on a stick. 0 -
Yikes! So the spawn of these two will repopulate the world. Not looking good.
They look a little old for breeding, anyway.0 -
OH MY GOD!!!! THE TREES!!!! THE POOR INNOCENT TREES!!!
Think of the poor trees that will be savagely ripped from their peaceful hillside homes and cut to pieces in order to build this so called monument from their innocent corpses.0
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