Swiss Alps

In the June 15, 2022 article "Yellowstone Floods In Unprecedented Climate Event Confirming Previous Site Claims (Videos)" I stated regarding the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica known as Thwaites, "Other glaciers are melting at an accelerated rate as well, and if allowed to reach full hilt without a proper scientific intervention, it will create unprecedented sea rise that will wipeout costal areas."

Another example of excessive and record glacial melt has surfaced outside Thwaites ('Doomsday Glacier' In Antarctica Under Imminent Risk Of Collapse Confirming Previous Claims). A new mainstream press report dated July 26, 2022 states the glaciers in the Swiss Alps are melting at a record and accelerated rate, faster than was expected. Drones were used to capture the footage for comparative purposes in determining the deterioration.

I keep issuing these articles for a reason (Doomsday Glacier' In Antarctica Under Imminent Risk Of Collapse Confirming Previous Claims and Yellowstone Floods In Unprecedented Climate Event Confirming Previous Site Claims (Videos) and Kentucky Experiences Deadly And Unprecedented Flooding Confirming Previous Statements About Climate Change (Videos) and Florida Is Experiencing Record Flooding Confirming Previous Site Claims and NASA Warns About Wobbling Moon Causing Global Flooding Confirming Previous Claims and Historic Flooding In Pakistan Leaves One Third Of The Nation Under Water In Climate Change Disaster Confirming Previous Site Claims).

Reuters reported, "'We are seeing model results expected a few decades in the future are happening now," Huss said. "I did not expect to see such an extreme year so early in the century.'"

The reason I keep publishing these types of articles to the site is because I've noticed items on social networking and from select press outlets, written by some who genuinely believe climate change is a hoax. However, it is very serious and life threatening. We've not seen the worst of it yet, which will only be compounded by inaction, regarding failure to fully act to solve the problem.

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Exclusive: Glaciers vanishing at record rate in Alps following heatwaves

MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland, July 26 (Reuters) - From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would never guess he was carrying 10 kg of steel equipment needed to chart the decline of Switzerland's glaciers.

Normally, he heads down this path on the massive Morteratsch Glacier in late September, the end of the summer melt season in the Alps. But exceptionally high ice loss this year has brought him to this 15-square-kilometer (5.8-square-mile) amphitheatre of ice two months early for emergency maintenance work.

The measuring poles he uses to track changes in the depth of the pack are at risk of dislodging entirely as the ice melts away and he needs to drill new holes.

The Alps' glaciers are on track for their highest mass losses in at least 60 years of record keeping, data shared exclusively with Reuters shows. By looking at the difference in how much snow fell in winter, and how much ice melts in the summer, scientists can measure how much a glacier has shrunk in any given year.

Since last winter, which brought relatively little snowfall, the Alps have sweltered through two big early summer heatwaves – including one in July marked by temperatures near 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in the Swiss mountain village of Zermatt.

During this heatwave, the elevation at which water froze was measured at a record high of 5,184 meters (17,000 feet) – at an altitude higher than Mont Blanc's -- compared with the normal summer level of between 3,000-3,500 meters (9,800-11,500 feet).
"It's really obvious that this is an extreme season," Linsbauer said, shouting over the roar of rushing meltwater as he checked the height of a pole jutting out of the ice.

MOUNTAIN MELTDOWN

Most of the world's mountain glaciers — remnants of the last ice age — are retreating due to climate change. But those in the European Alps are especially vulnerable because they are smaller with relatively little ice cover. Meanwhile, temperatures in the Alps are warming at around 0.3C per decade — around twice as fast as the global average.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the Alps glaciers are expected to lose more than 80% of their current mass by 2100. Many will disappear regardless of whatever emissions action is taken now, thanks to global warming baked in by past emissions, according to a 2019 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Already, Morteratsch is much changed from the glacier depicted on the region's tourist maps. The long tongue that once reached deep into the valley below has shrunk back by nearly 3 kilometers (2 miles), while the depth of the snow and ice pack has thinned by up to 200 meters (656 feet). A parallel glacier Pers flowed into it until 2017 but has now receded so much that an expanding strip of grit lies between them.

The dire situation this year raises concern that the Alps' glaciers might vanish sooner than expected. With more years like 2022, that could happen, said Matthias Huss, who leads Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS).

"We are seeing model results expected a few decades in the future are happening now," Huss said. "I did not expect to see such an extreme year so early in the century."...

https://www.reuters.com

Swiss Glaciers Melting Faster, Have Shrunk By Half Since 1930: Study

The glaciers in Switzerland have shed half their volume since the early 1930s, a new study has said. The ice volumes in the glaciers have reduced by half in the 86-year time period said the study.

The glaciers in Switzerland have shed half their volume since the early 1930s, a new study has said. It said that the retreat of the ice structures is accelerating at a time when there are growing concerns about climate change, Fox News said in a report. Since the early 2000s, scientists have been closely monitoring rapid glacier melt in the Alps and elsewhere, which they believe is caused by climate change, the outlet further said.

The researchers who conducted the latest study performed a first-ever reconstruction of ice loss in Switzerland in the 20th century based on the analysis of topographical changes. They said that ice volumes in the glaciers have reduced by half in the 86-year time period they studied - from 1930 to 2016. In just six years, the glaciers have lost a further 12 per cent of their mass, the scientists further said.

The study was published in a scientific journal named Cryosphere. Its co-author Daniel Farinotti was quoted as saying by Fox News, "Glacier retreat is accelerating. Closely observing this phenomenon and quantifying its historical dimensions is important because it allows us to infer the glaciers' responses to a changing climate."...

https://www.ndtv.com

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