heartbreaking: Switzerland’s 1,400 glaciers lost half their total volume since the early 1930s

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1. A new study has found that Switzerland’s 1,400 glaciers lost half their total volume since the early 1930s, and researchers say the ice retreat is accelerating at a time of growing concerns about climate change.

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2. my neighbour has been watering his garden since noon, don’t worry it’s going to great use 🥺

3. Bhah blah blah ! I have seen Banana wrapped in plastic in this countries but then they come to Africa and teach us how to live…I wish they can also learn something!!

4. But the flat-earth movement always claimed global warming was just a Jewish conspiracy to take control over Western governments.

   Are you telling me they were wrong the entire time??? 😳

   /s

5. I just read news that just explains how little mega rich care:

   https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/wusf6n/elon_musk_a_pris_un_vol_de_9_minutes_pour_san/

   Well at least we can buy new gadgets every year.

6. What is glacier, anyway time to go buy some groceries with my loud MERCEDES BENZ with 600horsepower

7. No worries, we’re spinning up new gas and oil power plants instead of solar and wind.

8. Those replies on twitter are something else

9. This isn’t heartbreaking, it’s fucking alarming, you make it sound like a simple inconvenience, this is a very real threat.

10. Oof the Twitter. I am content that it’s largest popularity is in the US and to a far much lesser extent in Europe. It’s a constant shouting match. Unless we go through a few years of weather extremes in the other direction (which is unlikely) I don’t see a chance that they will ever regain their volume.

11. More meadows for the bees and butterflies I guess?

12. Climate Change is no Problem. I just turn up climate control in my BWM X5

13. The glaciers are such a huge part of Swiss heritage, it will be sad even they are all gone in a couple of years.

14. They have lost visible amounts of ice in just 10 years or so I’ve been skiing around here. Meiringen glacier is gone, Tortin is more and more questionable and less and less rideable every year, and Glacier 3000 has melted so much it changed how it looks.

    Yes, they lost half their volume since 1930s, but 75% + of that loss occurred since 1980s: https://www.gletscherarchiv.de/files/11-305224-corvatsch-2019.jpg.