Hundreds mourn 'dead' glacier at funeral in Switzerland

CNN ^ | 09/24/2019 | By Arnaud Siad and Amy Woodyatt

[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.

[Magnum44]

[Truthoverpower]

Hero worship of ice and rocks

Lol

[beethovenfan]

It’s not dead - it’s pinin’ for the fjords.

[Magnum44]

LoL.

[FalloutShelterGirl]

and having more glaciers is a good thing because why??

Doesn't the existence of glaciers indicate previous climate change?

Being cold sucks...glacier melting is a good thing!

[IronJack]

Good riddance. The only use for ice is keeping your drink cold.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What they need to do is like the Harmonic Convergence of about 30 years ago, when they said the earth was off balance.

Go to these “sacred spots”, stand in a circle and touch hands, then throw their heads back and go “A-H-H-H-H” or “O-M-M-M-M” and that will fix everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence

Oh, Wait! There was a Harmonic Convergence again this year!

[WKUHilltopper]

I see they’re worshiping creation in those parts these days.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Wow, I was just a second ago likewise mourning the melted ice in my drink!

What Karma.

[butlerweave]

Maybe if they cleaned the dirt off it the Sun’s heat would stop melting it

[Spirochete]

80-90% of its volume since 2006, leaving behind 26,000 square meters of ice -- less than four football fields

So it wasn't very big to being with. A few miles long.

[jimmygrace]

Mourning ice... meanwhile, Alexandra Metzher was expendable to the leftist gods...

[GOPJ]

LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS THE CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT WRONG:

1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: New Ice Age By 2070
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2006: Super Hurricanes!
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s: Killer Bees!

Sorry, Experts… Sorry, Scientific Consensus… Only a fool comes running for the 42nd cry of wolf.

List ‘experts’ got right:

ZERO

Greta Thunberg - most recent fool...

above data from links:

bit/nolte-climate-experts-are-0-41-with-their-doomsday-predictions/

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions

[GOPJ]

LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS THE CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT WRONG:

1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: New Ice Age By 2070
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2006: Super Hurricanes!
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s: Killer Bees!

Sorry, Experts… Sorry, Scientific Consensus… Only a fool comes running for the 42nd cry of wolf.

List ‘experts’ got right:

ZERO

Arnaud Siad and Amy Woodyatt are fools...

above data from links:

bit/nolte-climate-experts-are-0-41-with-their-doomsday-predictions/

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions

[Magnum44]

Too add to your post, its amazing the doomsday predictors missed two real doomsday scenarios:

1) Kudzu taking over the south

2) Fire Ants

[Wuli]

Gaia.

[Vaduz]

Will they do the same for the great lakes around Michigan?.

[WKUHilltopper]

I remember all those BS talking points as I was raised in that time frame. However, I don’t remember the ‘blue steam’ gonna get us mantra. Can’t think what that one is supposed to be.

[G Larry]

Glaciers, they’ve been going down hill for years.....

[Chaguito]

I wish they would come to CA to mourn the hundreds, nay thousands, of glaciers who gave their lives carving the eastern Sierra Nevada. Only to be wiped out by fossil fuel consumption.

Oh, wait...