{"id":356493,"date":"2025-08-19T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356493\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:52:16","slug":"at-europes-melting-glaciers-signs-of-climate-peril-are-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356493\/","title":{"rendered":"At Europe’s melting glaciers, signs of climate peril are everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Across the border in Austria, Andrea Fischer, the vice-director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\u2019 Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, said these kinds of mass alpine movements are becoming stronger and more frequent.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne-third of Austria\u2019s glaciers will vanish in the next five years,\u201d Fischer said, standing on what remains of the Stubai Glacier, about 72 miles northeast of Morteratsch. At the top of one of Austria\u2019s most popular ski resorts, Stubai is projected to disappear entirely by 2033.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end of the Alpine glaciers is really coming very, very close. And we see it. It\u2019s not modeling in the computer. It\u2019s a real fact,\u201d Fischer added as she navigated down a muddy track to the edge of the ice. <\/p>\n

\"AndreaAndrea Fischer.Sean Keane \/ NBC News<\/p>\n

Global temperatures keep climbing as international efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions falter. Last year was the hottest on record<\/a>, according to NASA. The U.S. withdrawal<\/a> from the Paris climate agreement significantly undermined global climate efforts, making the already difficult goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (about 3 degrees Fahrenheit) close to impossible.<\/p>\n

Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth and Austria\u2019s temperature has risen 3.1 degrees Celsius since 1900, more than twice the global average. Studying glaciers, Fischer said, is critical to understanding where the climate is headed.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlaciers are climate archives,\u201d she said. Glaciers preserve records of precipitation and atmospheric circulation stretching back centuries, data that exists nowhere else. \u201cI\u2019m really hunting for every piece of cold ice containing this archive information,\u201d she said, before it\u2019s all gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across the border in Austria, Andrea Fischer, the vice-director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\u2019 Institute for Interdisciplinary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-356493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054821087748711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}