Alps' Glaciers Vanishing At Record Rate Following Early Summer Heatwaves

[Scott]

Alps' Glaciers Vanishing At Record Rate Following Early Summer Heatwaves

Most of the world's mountain glaciers - remnants of the last ice age - are retreating due to climate change

 

Switzerland:

From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland's glaciers.

 

Normally, he heads down this path on the massive Morteratsch Glacier in late September, the end of the summer melt season in the Alps. But exceptionally high ice loss this year has brought him to this 15-square-kilometer (5.8-square-mile) amphitheatre of ice two months early for emergency maintenance work

 

The measuring poles he uses to track changes in the depth of the pack are at risk of dislodging entirely as the ice melts away and he needs to drill new holes.

 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/exclusive-glaciers-vanishing-at-record-rate-in-alps-following-heatwaves-3193946

[Stargeezr]

I am convinced that the earth is heating itself up again. This time however humans are advanced enough to be able to monitor it. 

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2 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

I am convinced that the earth is heating itself up again. This time however humans are advanced enough to be able to monitor it. 

What an amazing coincidence, though. Climatologists predicted a highly accelerated rate of warming and sure enough it's happening. The fastest rate in about 125,000 years. And, all those denialists who claimed that the climate was cooling since 1998 seem to have gotten rather quiet lately on that score. And isn't it bizarre, how the rising temperature tallies with the rise in CO2, the potent warming properties of which have been established science since 1859,