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Hundreds mourn 'dead' glacier at funeral in Switzerland
CNN ^ | 09/24/2019 | By Arnaud Siad and Amy Woodyatt

Posted on 09/24/2019 7:55:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Hundreds of people held a funeral and paid respects to a Swiss glacier that is disappearing as temperatures climb.

Pizol glacier in the Glarus Alps, eastern Switzerland, stands at an altitude of about 2,700 meters, and has lost 80-90% of its volume since 2006, leaving behind 26,000 square meters of ice -- less than four football fields -- said Matthias Huss, a glacier specialist at ETH Zurich university.

The glacier, which has been monitored since 1893, will be the first to be taken off the Swiss glacier surveillance network, according to Huss.

Around 250 people gathered Sunday to hike up to the glacier, where a local priest gave a speech to commemorate the retreating ice, said Alessandra Degiacomi, coordinator of the Swiss Association for Climate Protection and organizer of the funeral march.

"Pizol glacier has disappeared. There will be some snow left, but the glacier is no more," Huss told CNN.

"There are several small pieces of ice lying around, but these pieces are increasingly being covered by rock debris from the mountain. But given what is left of it, we will no longer term it a glacier in scientific terms," Huss added.

"80% of the glaciers in Switzerland are more or less the same size as Pizol," Degiacomi told CNN.

"If Pizol goes, this is a warning sign. This is what is going to happen if we don't change something about our behavior," she added.

Degiacomi told CNN that the Swiss Association for Climate Protection had obtained 120,000 signatures -- above the 100,000 required -- needed to launch a popular initiative demanding that Switzerland reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: funeral; glacier; globalwarming; mentalillness; switzerland
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To: SeekAndFind

NYC, Chicago, Seattle and many smaller US cities, not to mention Canada, were once under 2 miles of glacial ice. Start building or plant rutabaga


41 posted on 09/24/2019 9:23:35 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: GOPJ

Doomsday predictions bump for later....


42 posted on 09/24/2019 9:23:39 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: SeekAndFind

reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.


What good will that do? only 12 years to dooms day.


43 posted on 09/24/2019 9:26:48 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind
And I'll bet they all got there in CO2-"spewing" automobiles or buses.
44 posted on 09/24/2019 9:56:27 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: SeekAndFind

Idiotic.

Glaciers are Death incarnate. In my mind, this makes them all a bunch of satanic worshippers.

Instead of trying to find ways to FIGHT glaciars and glaciar advance, these lunatics are promoting it.

Wouldn’t it be better if that barren land with a few moss patches had some grass and some hardy goats on it?


45 posted on 09/24/2019 10:00:41 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: Oatka

Jesus didn’t come to save a glacier or a tree. It’s funny “they” don’t mourn the loss of just one of the many poor souls who have died on the sidewalks of L.A.


46 posted on 09/24/2019 10:06:32 AM PDT by Rainwave ("Work out your OWN salvation with fear and trembling")
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To: SeekAndFind
Climate Protection

We are running out of climates.

47 posted on 09/24/2019 10:06:36 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Should we weep when the last icicle of the winter melts in the spring? Are these people on the same planet as me or is it just their minds dwelling a totally different dimension?


48 posted on 09/24/2019 11:03:55 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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What plants that can be used as food for any animal grow out of a glacier?


49 posted on 09/24/2019 11:06:38 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: SeekAndFind
The Odd Couple - Funeral for a Fly
50 posted on 09/24/2019 11:17:58 AM PDT by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hippies Crying Over Dead Trees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI


51 posted on 09/24/2019 11:21:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s a lot of retards in one picture.


52 posted on 09/24/2019 11:32:27 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: SeekAndFind
Rom 1:24  Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 
Rom 1:25  who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 
53 posted on 09/24/2019 11:36:12 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: USCG SimTech

Come CNN. You’re an American company broadcasting to an American audience.
Use American measurements.
26,000 square meters is 6.42 acres.
I can quickly gauge six and a half acres.
Even if CNN continues to persists in using foreign measuring, don’t use a large unit like square meters, use 2.5 hectares.


54 posted on 09/24/2019 11:40:42 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: happilymarriedmom

The list is from the links at the bottom - pass it around as much as possible...


55 posted on 09/24/2019 12:20:09 PM PDT by GOPJ (What exactly was Hunter Biden doing in that foreign country and why was he hired to do it?- Vennochi)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Palo Alto - Paul Ehrlich on ‘blue steam’:

https://cei.org/sites/default/files/2_2.png

All backup material is in the links at the bottom of the reply...


56 posted on 09/24/2019 12:55:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (What exactly was Hunter Biden doing in that foreign country and why was he hired to do it?- Vennochi)
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To: WKUHilltopper

New York Times - 1969... Blue Steam Palo Alto - Paul Ehrlich

link in other earlier reply


57 posted on 09/24/2019 12:57:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (What exactly was Hunter Biden doing in that foreign country and why was he hired to do it?- Vennochi)
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To: SeekAndFind

It will be back. We are at the end of the inter glacial warm period. What you see is perfectly normal, obviously. Earth to morons.


58 posted on 09/25/2019 9:12:42 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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