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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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
Doomsday predictions bump for later....
reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.
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?
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.
We are running out of climates.
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?
What plants that can be used as food for any animal grow out of a glacier?
That’s a lot of retards in one picture.
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.
The list is from the links at the bottom - pass it around as much as possible...
Palo Alto - Paul Ehrlich on ‘blue steam’:
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All backup material is in the links at the bottom of the reply...
New York Times - 1969... Blue Steam Palo Alto - Paul Ehrlich
link in other earlier reply
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.
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