• @Spike@feddit.de
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      91 year ago

      The good thing about being permanently depressed because of climate change is that this isnt really devastating “news”.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    71 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in just two years, research shows, after high summer heat and low winter snowfall.

    The team at Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS) said the “massive ice loss” stemmed from a winter with very low volumes of snow - which falls on top of glaciers and protects them from exposure to direct sunlight - and high summer temperatures.

    Images posted on social media by Matthias Huss, who leads GLAMOS, during data collection trips in recent weeks showed new lakes forming next to glacier tongues, as well as streams of melt water running through ice caves, and bare rock poking out from thinning ice.

    More than half of the glaciers in the Alps are in Switzerland where temperatures are rising by around twice the global average due to climate change.

    Read more:Antarctic winter sea ice hits ‘extreme’ record lowClimate models warn of apocalyptic future

    But even in such areas, “a loss of over two metres of the average ice thickness is extremely high,” the team said.


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  • @Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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    21 year ago

    such as for the Aletsch Glacier in Valais and Plaine Morte Glacier in the canton of Bern, because they enjoyed more winter snowfall.

    The locations are mixed up in this sentence

  • @Wirrvogel@feddit.de
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    21 year ago

    Instead of snow fall, there is more rain fall over the mountains that had former a glacier there. Strong rainfalls that fall onto the stone and rubble and the end of permafrost lead to landslides and these strong rainfalls in a short amount of time are getting more frequent.

    https://www.climatechangepost.com/switzerland/avalanches-and-landslides/

    It is not just the glacier gone and the water missing in summer, it’s also more places where people live being in danger.