interestingasfuckbysanitation Europe's largest glacier, the Aletsch, is melting about 50 meters (164 feet) a year. This is what was left on July 28 this year.View original on lemmy.today94Comments8Reply
Catoblepas replylemmy.blahaj.zoneI bet the archaeology up there is gonna be nuts, though. Gotta look on the bright side of the F5 tornado.14Reply
MMalyca lemmy.zip4Hide 4 repliesIt's 90° (32° Celsius) in the artic, I'm so afraid it's too late for all of the glaciers. I hope to see one and show my kids before they're all gone.19Reply
rrabber replylemmy.ca3Hide 3 repliesWhere is it 32 in the arctic? The warmest I can see is like 20 in inuvik (which is still too hot tbf)5Reply
MMalyca replylemmy.zip2Hide 2 repliesI read an article yesterday saying it was that high in the Russian tundra all week, above the Arctic circle. It's warming much faster there than it is everywhere else :(4Reply
rrabber replylemmy.ca1Hide 1 replyThat's especially disastrous there due to the gasses being released from the melting permafrost.2Reply
rrabber lemmy.caAre we assuming iceland is not europe? Also isn't Jostedalsbreen much larger than Aletsch?5Reply
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Depressing as fuck.
I bet the archaeology up there is gonna be nuts, though. Gotta look on the bright side of the F5 tornado.
It's 90° (32° Celsius) in the artic, I'm so afraid it's too late for all of the glaciers. I hope to see one and show my kids before they're all gone.
Where is it 32 in the arctic? The warmest I can see is like 20 in inuvik (which is still too hot tbf)
I read an article yesterday saying it was that high in the Russian tundra all week, above the Arctic circle. It's warming much faster there than it is everywhere else :(
That's especially disastrous there due to the gasses being released from the melting permafrost.
Dark days ahead
Are we assuming iceland is not europe? Also isn't Jostedalsbreen much larger than Aletsch?