Photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

2024-08-08 at 3:03 AM UTC

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Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

Photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

The carbon pollution released by burning fossil fuels and destroying nature has heated the planet 1.3C since preindustrial times. In Europe, which has warmed twice as fast as the global average, hotter summers have forced people in mountainous regions to see slow-moving glaciers melt before their eyes.

Switzerland has lost one-third of its glacier volume since 2000, according to official statistics, and 10% has disappeared in the last two years alone.

2024-08-08 at 3:05 AM UTC

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

Ice melts, folks!! Who knew??

2024-08-08 at 3:42 AM UTC

#3

Elbow African Astronaut

Wow, that's crazy.

2024-08-08 at 4:03 AM UTC

#4

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

I could photograph some ice on my window sill, come back in 15 years and photograph the ice gone from my window sill, and then post the difference.

2024-08-08 at 4:04 AM UTC

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Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I could photograph some ice on my window sill, come back in 15 years and photograph the ice gone from my window sill, and then post the difference.

Nobody would notice if you did.

2024-08-08 at 4:05 AM UTC

#6

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

Originally posted by Obbe Nobody would notice if you did.

But it would be just as ridiculous as what you just posted.

2024-08-08 at 4:06 AM UTC

#7

Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

Wow, that's crazy.

The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!

Elbow

2024-08-08 at 4:14 AM UTC

#8

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

This here BBS is under attack from Obbe. An Obbe attack, if you will.

2024-08-08 at 12:08 PM UTC

#9

Speedy Parker Black Hole

ITT OP laments the end of another ice age.

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Photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers