A woman takes part in a ceremony to mark the "death" of Switzerland's Pizol glacier
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.
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On a par with the begging of forgiveness from a bunch of plants.
I wonder who would morn these a holes if the Glazier were 1000 feet deep at that spot??
Well by golly we probably should have one in Yosemite to bemoan the glaciers that carved through the valley a couple years ago and have now vanished. I mean we could even invite greta so stop in.
Been Dying since the last ice age and not dead yet ?
Do they really believe this crap or do they just think it might help them get laid?
Yep, its a religion
It's a social event for quacks, they need companionship too.
Got to keep the loonies on the path..................
What a bunch of morons!
Glaciers come and go for many reasons....especially micro mt top glaciers
Brain Damage
Pink Floyd
Produced by Pink Floyd
Album The Dark Side of the Moon
[Verse 1: Roger Waters]
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paperboy brings more
[Chorus: Roger Waters]
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
[Verse 2: Roger Waters]
The lunatic is in my head (*Laughs*)
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade
You make the change
You rearrange me till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
And there’s someone in my head but it’s not me
[Chorus: Roger Waters]
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
[Outro: Peter Watts & Patricia Watts]
I can’t think of anything to say except
Hahahahahahaha!
I think it’s marvellous!
Hahaha...
There are 198,000 glaciers in the world.
This is analogous to claiming if a single mud puddle dries up, that the entire earth will become a desert.
The cult of climate change.
We are being so scammed by these morons
Ok the “glacier” is down to the size of 4 football fields - but it was only the size of 25 football fields to begin with which is not much of a glacier to begin with
Earth worshippers having the neo pagan equivalent of the funeral mass. If they really wanted to know what is happening they might want to take some soil temperature readings at various depths. Their mother earth goddess seems to be releasing a lot of heat lately whether it be in the form of volcanoes, earthquakes, underwater “smokers” and crevice venting.
Why do the leaders of these “groups” look like they’re pulled from central casting for the crazy guy.
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