Globally Warmed Beer

A Danish brewery in Greenland is brewing beer using water from the melting Arctic ice-cap. "When life gives you SARS, make sarsaparilla," said a spokesman. "Or, in this case, when life gives you catastrophic global warming, get drunk."

The brewers claim that the water is at least 2,000 years old and free of minerals and pollutants. The first 66,000 litres of the new dark and pale ales are on their way to the Danish market, in late 2006.