Climate change: Europe's melting glaciers | DW Documentary

It is far too late to save the Alpine glaciers. And now, the dangers caused by tons of melting ice are rising sharply. Every year, climate change is destroying two of the currently 70 square kilometers of glaciers left in the Alps.
The permafrost in the Alps is thawing, and transforming what used to be sturdy slopes into loose screes. In addition, climate change is leading to significantly more extreme weather conditions every year, while heavy rainfall causes serious erosion. The result: avalanches and landslides like those in Bondo, Switzerland, or Valsertal in Austria.
In Switzerland, residential areas are shrinking as people are forced to leave their homes forever. The disappearance of glaciers as water reservoirs is already posing a major problem. Farmers in Engadine, who have been using meltwater for irrigation for centuries, are already facing water shortages. Last summer, they had to rely on helicopters to transport water to their herds in the Grison Alps. Above all, alpine villages depend on winter tourism to survive. Yet experts are forecasting that by mid-century, there will only be enough natural snow left to ski above 2,000 meters, which will spell out the end for about 70 percent of the ski resorts in the Eastern Alps. But instead of developing alternatives, lots of money is still being invested in ski tourism. Snow cannon are used to defy climate change, and artificial snow systems are under construction at ever higher altitudes. As usual, it’s the environment that is set to lose as the unique alpine landscape is further destroyed by soil compaction and erosion. Some municipalities are now working on new models of alpine tourism for the future. As global temperatures continue to rise, the cooler mountain regions will become increasingly attractive for tourists, especially in the summer.
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[@tadblackington1676]

Don't forget that the Alps are Europe's watertower too. What happens to them happens to the Po, Rhone, Rhine and Danube too.

[@geitenkampsejos]

In that way it also effects drinking water supply, logistics, food production. Besides that trans-Alp transport routes (rail)ways are in danger. It is a very major European problem that is not getting enough attention.

[@druadhlus7693]

@@geitenkampsejos Oh My God .... were doomed

[@druadhlus7693]

@Checkered Feather Too wet ... too dry...can't win with you

[@eythemischief4148]

Finally one that sees the whole picture and thinks globally, not locally. I love you!

[@tuvoca825]

Here comes the drought. Soon they will be dry, dry, dry.

[@Jimmy4video]

No glaciers, means less water for the rivers in late summer. This will have far reaching effects far beyond the mountains.

[@druadhlus7693]

Yeah ... how will I fill my pool.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Oh yeah you just hit the nail on the head. But the results will be far more disasterous. Europeans will eventually become climate refugees themselves .

[@druadhlus7693]

@@paxwallacejazz Jesus guys .. climate has nothing to do with what will make europeans refugees ... it will be SHARIA. Their smoke screen is working well.

[@hanskramer9874]

No more Swiss Alps skying without a massive water bill, glaciers are receding there rapidly. Humans are doing a wrong thing to Earth and we can't have a redo on this or fix it. Co2 out!

[@aubreyharper4829]

Well the coasts that we know today it will dissapear forever and the sea creatures will be able to reach the coasts more easily so no more beaches to you.

[@sanmechrocker]

Corona Virus: I'm coming to save you mother Earth.

[@oneshothunter9877]

Humans finding vaccines: WE WILL BE BACK! - said with Arnold Terminator voice.

[@CHMichael]

I wonder if thete was a change during the cancelled ski season?

[@alsrenos]

Reducing population is a good thing but only if it up against the food supply and it’s getting in short supply

[@mind9528]

Aha! I agree with u, sometimes I felt bad of the corona virus but the same time I feel good! & so many thanks!! for the corona virus!? Because of it seem to be help our earth as well 🙂

[@mind9528]

Ohh.. Like! Agree! a lot of your said 👍💯🤗

[@angelobugini6771]

The end of the Alps? is definitely a top notch documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!

[@healthy-drinks]

Fossil records reveal that atmospheric CO2 levels at Jurrasic periode around 600 million years ago were about 7,000 ppm, compared with 400 ppm in 2018. CO2 is an essential plant nutrient (1200 ppm is normal target). If CO2 in the atmosphere were ever to drop below 150 ppm, all plant life would die, we also die. Anyone who has studied the global environmental movement has no doubt heard the term "Gaia". Gaia is a revival of Paganism that rejects Christianity, considers Christianity its biggest enemy, and views the Christian faith as its only obstacle to a global religion centered on Gaia worship and the uniting of all life forms around the goddess of "Mother Earth".

[@druadhlus7693]

Don't worry ... they will

[@jamesbonde4470]

I hate the Alps. It should go away. What's an Alp?

[@matushonko7223]

experts say we are at a turning point... realists say we missed that somewhere in the 80s

[@barbarasmith6005]

Missed it in the 1960s when LBJ was going address the nation on the the subject, but didn't--Vietnam was very distracting

[@peepa47]

Which experts? You mean Greta?? I say we didnt miss anything yet

[@matushonko7223]

@@peepa47 by that line i refered to what is commonly encountered in mainstream media- by us not missing, do you mean like the earth is still roughly habitable?

[@TheHonestPeanut]

@@peepa47 The experts in the video you're watching... But you can't miss something if you're willfully ignorant huh? Everything's normal right? Nothing to see.

[@TheVideoful100]

This is probably the tipping point, not the turning point.

[@hansheinsen9807]

Stop Deforestation all over the world

[@theveganvillainess]

Stop eating animals, it's one of the #1 causes of deforestation.

[@druadhlus7693]

@@theveganvillainess Make sure you get your B12

[@theveganvillainess]

@@druadhlus7693 I had my B-12 checked already and it's fine. I don't even take a supplement. I just eat nutritional yeast and other B-12 fortified foods. Also many meat eaters have B-12 deficiencies and many doctors suggest everyone, including people eating meat and dairy to take a B-12 supplement.

[@druadhlus7693]

@@theveganvillainess Good to know.

[@hanskramer9874]

Too many humans think they should own a solid body electric guitar but they s_ck at it. Go figure.

[@rustymugg9658]

I live in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It's alarmingly dry here too. This was know as the rainy city. No more glaciers access the world , yes, that scare me to death...literally. ☠

[@sunnyarora9961]

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[@yolandajaraplasan8740]

Deeply alarming. Yet, a lot of people are seemingly unconcerned about the effects of global warming.

[@everythingbeautifulisfaraw1792]

So I hope that world enjoyed with this heatwave , fires and fluids

[@nadyagazda885]

@@everythingbeautifulisfaraw1792 exactly 😞

[@brianwheeldon4643]

it's called Denial

[@pauldrake1858]

For the past 20 years I have seen glaciers recede in the alps of the South Island of New Zealand. I lived there and I am not lying!!!!

[@Tore_Lund]

I second that and made a similar comment higher up to this video. Snow line in the Alps in summer is 150-250 meters higher now than 20 years ago.

[@pauldrake1858]

Thanks Tore. Cheers.

[@Cingearth]

no it is getting colder in nz ! more snow than ever !

[@Tore_Lund]

@@pauldrake1858 Sorry, I misread, I thought you were talking about the European Alps, but it just underlines the point.

[@pauldrake1858]

cing: Where about's in NZ do you live?

[@__R__S__]

Flying from Alaska to Europe just for vacation sure isn‘t sustainable.

[@nadyagazda885]

Flying for vacation isn’t sustainable

[@Dorr234]

Agree

[@Dorr234]

@@nadyagazda885 true

[@aegaeon117]

Glad others caught that, I was taking back by it and seeing workers combat climate change with the very machines that cause climate change.

[@John-eq8cu]

Wow, another amazing documentary from Deutche Welle. Thank you for posting.

[@kofManKan]

Just keep focusing on the plastic straws and plastic bags and all will be well.

[@treedog25]

You should quit your day job and do a environmental stand up comedy act! You’d rock it!

[@____________aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Bruce Raggett I usually have to say this at least once a day. The climate is changing because the climate always changes. Unfortunately this time it is changing at a faster rate, like a hundred times faster. Co2 levels control the global heating and co2 has gone up 25% in 40 years at 415 ppm vs 300 ppm in 1978. Dating with ice cores we can only find that increase over the course of millennia. Global temperatures had also taken a hundred thousand years to gradually increase/decrease by point percentages. But not today... we go through that in less than a decade. A 2c rise in global temperature is NOT a scare tactic it is in fact a tipping point that will melt glaciers within years. And like that cube of ice in your glass melts from room temperature, when it’s gone the temperature of the liquid will also rise exponentially to room temperature. That’s the Arctic Ocean... the planets air conditioner. Arctic warms up, like it’s doing the past two years and you loose the temperature gradient that causes a reduction in pressure that keeps the jet stream alive. Once the Arctic goes so goes the planet.

[@northofyou33]

We need to focus on every single thing that can make a difference because we have let this go until the last minute.

[@jwarmstrong]

@Bruce Raggett All mountains will fall due to erosion

[@ohhi5237]

lets drive our cars to the indoor gym and worry about billboards warning us about the dangers of sugar

[@StephiSensei26]

No more aerial shots of Julie Andrews singing Edelweiss, on the high Swiss meadows, as the glaciers melt away. My heart goes out to the livestock. It's their home also. At a rate of 2 SqKm per year, that gives us approx. 35 Yrs, and even that is optimistic. 40 years have gone by since we began "warning" of climate change. Why are we so slow to understand that warnings like this, are not meant to poop on your party, but to help us all adapt for what is to come, and make time before that happens? "...Nobody wanted the party to end", says it all. And now, here we are 40yrs later, just beginning to wonder what to do about it. Oh well, better late than never. I guess? Sad Documentary, Beautiful, but sad. Thx DW. Always fine work. Please note, this Doc is 2 yrs old already.

[@LiquidShivaz]

Well said, thank you. Looking at where we at now, it’s proceeding in a devastating pace

[@edwardlee2794]

Great documentary, insightful and impactive narrative. Thanks and keep up with the good work. From HK

[@rajeshkumar93362]

@@CROOZA2 vggchj

[@nischalpokhrel2992]

We Nepali don't Climb parabat ( Hills that receive snow in winter in Nepal above 4000 ) after tea we just make long morning walk and guess it's climbed .Recently Miss Nepal Shrinkhala Khatiwada climbed Mt Blanc 4800m above sea level after having coffee in France and she was just walking and after 4 hrs someone told her you are on the top of western Europe .And it's not a joke

[@sanasama2209]

Seems like u have dreamt it🤣

[@mohba01]

@Franz Huber you should try nepal, where he lives. how about 8000 mts ?? when will you ever get to see it otherwise.

[@jonc67uk]

Are you guys making snow stupas to conserve water? I've seen it being done in Ladakh..

[@augustlandmesser1520]

@@jonc67uk Wow! That's interesting! Sometimes they are beautifully crafted, real masterpieces of art.

[@jigneshgharat2018]

M

[@rosmalinamalina9260]

It's one of the most beautiful areas in 🌏 the world. Keep it.

[@nadyagazda885]

I don’t think it’s a choice anymore…x

[@curt5003]

Chinese will buy it up anyways who cares

[@tomjohn8733]

The future of snow, is the future water, the future of water is the future of life….

[@justdev8965]

Future life is a future of more human caused destruction until there is nothing left anymore. We are hard wired to self destruct.

[@tomjohn8733]

@@justdev8965 that seems to be, unfortunately, true, humans are indeed like a parasites living on it host, some do good, other do harm,, some parasites will consume it host until it kills it then move on searching for a new host, but humans are a complex form of life, and the earth is suffering from a fever, and we all know that ever living thing has its limits, like a virus, infection or cancers that keep spreading until it kill us…the earth biosphere is out of balance and the results will have dire consequences for all life, especially humans and other complex life forms, good science doesn’t lie,…

[@liquidsnake78able]

Heart breaking man

[@danicaaumentado2837]

i have always watched climate videos but this is the first time i saw students and am envious. ppl do not know how interesting it is that to understand simple things in the environment can change absolutely everything in the ecosystem. after finishing residency i will absolutely pursue to become an environmentalist.

[@tuvoca825]

Make sure they get paid enough and there are enough jobs first....

[@FrankLowe1949]

What will be will be.There is nothing we can do.period .

[@user-bv2pu2jq6z]

You don't need to worry Frank. Its all a big ruse to generate income for the corporations.

[@Mary-iz8hg]

Stop Greed and deforestation and maybe we'll live

[@hatrack5977]

Stop nature itself now that’s difficult

[@ohhi5237]

@lcyw20 Hemp.

[@liquidsnake78able]

630 ski resorts ? oh my good God

[@BarefootBill]

What have they done to the Earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her. Stuck her with knives in the side of the Dawn and Tied her with fences and dragged her down! 50 year old lyrics and we still haven't learned. Civilization is abhorrent to the Universe.

[@nadyagazda885]

Wonderful (terrible) lyrics ✨I share them often x

[@joeblack7660]

The Northern Hemisphere has been in a warming trend for 12,000 years.

[@joeblack7660]

@TheHealthPhysicist You are correct. The main push for many problems is the explosion of human population. Also, just the physics of melting ice... the temperature stays around the melting/freezing point until the mass of ice loses it buffering influence over the surrounding area. Example is a glass of ice water. Once the ice is nearly all melted the water temperature in the glass will quickly change to ambient room temperature. (assuming room temperature is say 70 degrees) Back in the 1860's Edward Whymper was writing about the melting glaciers in the Alps. About 12,000 years ago the warming trend began and we are still in this phase

[@joeblack7660]

@TheHealthPhysicist Only if you see no value to the geological record and glacial periods

[@olgac8211]

thank you for bringing such issue in Europe. We see a lot of doc on Asia and not as much on Alps.

[@philsmith7901]

Dear Dear Eartha, Im leaving you for Marsha. She is cold, distant, and mysterious but she can change. Just know its not you its me. Sincerely Mankind

[@happynazeer4180]

What a nice letter!

[@toddlavigne6441]

gotta say climbing that mountain would be a thrill

[@justinmorgan2126]

We live in western Hungary near the Austrian border. We used to get around 3 to 5 meters of snow every winter and wide spread deep snow for at least 14 weeks of winter. Now we are lucky if we get more than 10 to 15 cms for a few weeks. We used to have snow weeks when no one in the villages could get into the nearby towns/schools now, so long as you don't live up in the hills like us, there are no snow days at all. This all began in the late 2000s and every year it gets worse. I can honestly see a time coming when we get no snow at all in winter, just a bit of ice and some hail.

[@amcoelhoeng]

What affects the Alps, affects our entire world. Everything is connected. This documentary was well done, and causes me more anxiety about what’s going on.

[@pintyajadhav1403]

Í

[@thatguyin2116]

How?

[@annieladysmith]

They had more snow last winter than any ever recorded.

[@mikaelgaiason688]

Anybody who ever lived anywhere it snows understands how it works. When it's warmer it snows more, and the snow is heavier and piles up thicker. When it's really cold it usually doesn't snow. If it does it's very fine flakes and light flurries that just blow around. Most heavy snowfalls happen at the beginning and end of winter, when warm fronts come in.

[@Tore_Lund]

I drove through the MontBlanc tunnel 2 weeks ago and usually there are patches of snow on the curb even late July! This year the closest snow I could spot was 100 meters higher. Usually I make a stop after the tunnel to pitch some snowballs at my children, not possible this year! I've been traversing the Alps on holidays the last 20 years and remember the Brenner pass which is 140 meters lower having to be cleared from snow in June before my train could pass.

[@gal766]

The most problematic aspect is not mentioned: The reason there is no turning point is that snow reflect the sun, whereas the rocks absorb most of it - that is the turning point - in such a case the earth will get hotter and hotter and the snow which once trapped co2 will no longer exist & the trees that will burn from fluctuations will also release trapped co2. We well disserve it especially the arrogant people that thinks that this is natural. But I am concerned for the rest of the animal Kingdome they have no hope.

[@mikeryan7213]

If we adopt that defeatist attitude then we truly have no hope.

[@woodspirit98]

Gal. The snow doesn't trap co2. The oceans absorb most of the heat from the sun. Snow reflecting light is called albido. All warming and all cooling of earth is done by the sun. None of it is caused by humans or robots or space aliens. Most of the co2 from earth's past is locked up in rock. If you take any acid and put it on limestone it will fizz, giving off co2.

[@mikeryan7213]

@@woodspirit98 so you're a bigger expert than all the scientists and climatologists all over the world? They have been measuring CO2 and other harmful gases in the atmosphere for decades, and levels now are alarmingly high. So CO2 trapped on surfaces are not yet an issue. But they will if erratic climate conditions cause their release, just as the Siberian wildfires released copious amounts of methane etc. What is also not in dispute is that the climate is warming, with every other year nearly setting new records. And catastrophic climatic events are becoming more frequent.

[@600rrmike]

@@mikeryan7213 Everything woodspring quoted is correct so you have just shown how ignorant you are. Well done!

[@600rrmike]

Global temperatures have increased by 0.7 deg C inthe last 150 years it is normal for the climate to fluctuate. Globalists want to keep you in fear and have obviously succeeded.

[@paulmakinson1965]

There are still people in Switzerland like Werner Munter denying human caused climate change. Werner is a renowned and influential mountain guide who wrote the book on avalanche safety all pro mountaineers are required to read. He invented the 3x3 method of risk assessment. Deniers in Switzerland always use him as a reference. But he is not a climatologist or even a scientist. I just do not understand Werner's position as you can see the ancient levels of of the glaciers etched in the rock and marked out by the moraines. The places I used to ski in the 80's and 90' are totally unrecognisable. Change is normal, but it takes thousands of years, not decades.

[@user-bv2pu2jq6z]

Over 9000 scientists petitioned the UN to say that there is no climate emergency the earth is getting cooler but the UN has ignored them. The current alarmism is based on flawed and corrupted models and is designed to generate money for the elite. It is driven by the UN Corp started in France during the Vichy era.

[@ohhi5237]

well some people still believe in gods, so what?

[@BO-ex1ve]

water issues in switzerland? seems like a new opportunity for nestle, if you know what i mean

[@Uknown76]

Ah yes the scum bag corporation that violates human rights in 3rd world countries

[@KuchiKaeschtliTV]

@@Uknown76 so basically it's like any other corporation on earth? what a shocker *twisting my eyes*

[@RaymondAmbrogio]

JUst to let you know that I like to watch your documentaries. This one is my favorite one.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Do not become addicted to water! you'll miss it's absence.

[@hatrack5977]

“Who killed the world!!?”

[@kirstinstrand6292]

Everyone

[@gerardvaughan1847]

Switch to PEPSI !

[@LouLou10000]

Germany is under floods yet short of water, Nigeria is currently under flood water yet short of water, , Pakistan is currently under flood water yet India abd Pakistan are short of water abd India has monsoon every year, there's plenty of water, it's just been mismanaged and relocating itself. The climates have never been constant, whilst one area heats up another gets colder, when ice melts in one region it's growing in another. Arabian desert was once a sea abd lush green lands, climate change has always abd will always happen, islands rise abd others flood abd disappear under the waves, this is normal. The myth is that we can control it, but it makes people money so ...

[@realeyesrealizereallies6828]

Don't have children, unless your Okay with watching them starve....Quit destroying these mountains, if you can go there and not leave a trace, that's one thing, snow machines, are another, altogether, just adding to the speed of the destruction....

[@kirstinstrand6292]

Starve to death, that is.

[@lj4339]

Will the land be ruined from top soil run off?

[@lim8581]

The profound impact of climate change on the Alpine glaciers and the surrounding ecosystem is deeply concerning. This documentary highlights the urgent need for sustainable solutions and responsible tourism practices. Thank you for shedding light on this critical issue.

[@paxwallacejazz]

The dessertfication of Europe . Pretty much sums it up. Water acquisition and purification will become critical but it will be too late.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

@Pistol Pete we will all be dead before it does.

[@tyiffpeijc8702]

@Pistol Pete An occasional spike barely slows the now seemingly inevitable desertification. That was mentioned in the video. It was also mentioned that the wetness is less and less absorbed into the compacted soil, so it rolls off instead of staying put, and then contributes even more problems.

[@ohhi5237]

its been dry 2 days last 2 weeks, sorry what?

[@ohhi5237]

@@tyiffpeijc8702 one hot summer doesnt make a hot climate

[@SteveSmith-kc8rn]

I always look forward to dessert.

[@frankcoates4609]

Everything will become unimaginably worse and never get better again.

[@magentaskittles477]

And so many people say global warming is a myth and fake news. *screams internally*

[@rishivardhan2289]

Not only here but every corner of the world facing climate change which led to global warming.

[@Mrbooboo1972]

It's Heartbreaking for me to see what we have done to this planet. Only in recent years have more people taking notice. What's it going to take to save Humanity....??

[@deleteexistence6175]

We? More like *them* The oil hungry bastards

[@jasperwhitfield553]

mother nature

[@chlorone]

@@deleteexistence6175 everyone is guilty. not alone "them". sure companies destroy the planet by exploits of resources but who are working in those companies? WE. and what do we do with all the trash we produce? WE make it even worse, who's driving all those cars? them? nope WE do to answer what its going to take is fairly simple... first we have to give up all that modern technologies and stop being lazy driving cars, instead we need to walk on our feet again or ride a horse or something. like WE (our forbears) have done it for several thousand years in the past then WE have to stop using all those unnessecary electric devices.... like WE dont need electric toothbrushes.... the hand can do it much more eco friendly. we dont need a coffee maschine, you can just brew it like a tea...WE dont need a electric mixer to steer a dough, our hands are capable of doing that well. WE dont need smartphones to be able to call to other people all around the globe. mankind didnt need this the past 10.000 years and they dont need it now either. its just another useless gimick that adds up to the destruction of the planet. theres only 1 problem... 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of humans are too lazy and too spoiled from luxurities to give it all up and those who never even had these spoils and lived like we are supose to be were concidered 3rd world and got forced to our destructive lifestyle.

[@ludo9234]

Humanity needs a cull' the covid release wasn't enough.

[@mirthepeeters65]

Does humanity deserves to be saved? ..

[@lestat3019]

Just started watching, I just hope we find out how many rivers in Europe depend on the glaciers.

[@seungdaelee8299]

Too many ski resorts.. winter sports gotta slowdown. Mountains also need rest.

[@mariekatherine5238]

How were the Alps in the Medieval Warm Period? Supposedly there were foot trails clear of snow that haven’t been passable in centuries.

[@DynamicSpace3D]

Awesome that not once was the climate change said to be man made. Actually gave this doco some credibility in my opinion.

[@paulbroderick8438]

Too many greedy and grab people for way too long have decided from the day they were born that their only mission in life was to treat life like an orange, squeezing the last drop from it irrespective of those around them and the harm done. Looks like their arrogant selfish life is about to come to a screeching halt! Loved the instructional video and thank you.

[@artm8dk]

"Keeping the customer happy at all cost will release doomsday".

[@freddurst6204]

Can't wait until this happens. Humans need to reap what they sow. Selfish species.......

[@artm8dk]

@@freddurst6204 You got a point there.

[@druadhlus7693]

Bunch of pansies

[@stacyclarkson6202]

:) you should try reality,its Real! Peter!!

[@brandonvelde5774]

@@freddurst6204 Ah, it seems I've stumbled on this Comments Section's local edgelord.

[@darcymunro8930]

Water is the new gold and more importantly the life blood of the planet.

[@voodooutt]

Same thing happening in Southern California in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains. I have been skiing in these mountains for 30+ years and remember back in the 80's there would be lots of snow cover, long seasons from November to April. Man made snow was just an afterthought. The 3100m peaks would be snow covered for 6-7 months out of the year. Now a few areas rely just on natural snow and unfortunately they are open maybe 2-3 weeks out of the year for skiing, if at all some winters. All of the resorts sit at a base altitude of 2,000 +/- m and reach a height of 2,700m. The larger areas now rely 100% on man made snow.

[@RR-on4sk]

Exactly. So many deniers but idk why when you can just look around. The ski resorts in my area have also been limping along for about 10 yrs at least and we (used to be) known for legendary snowfalls. People can't get rid of their winter toys quick enough. Even if the silver lining is less pain in ther ass snow & cold, it's not working out that way either. Instead of just a becoming a warmer climate to enjoy, it's been extremely unpleasant. Invasive plants killing our trees like crazy, harmful insects spreading diseases more, extreme temp changes, etc. It's not like the northeast is becoming some warm, pleasant paradise; it's becoming hell. Ecoli is flourishing in the fresh water. I knew something was changing when the Canadian geese began to stay winters. Now half of them stick it out because it's not as harsh, in some ways at least. The deer are rutting late, causing weird birthing times. I worry about what will happen in another 10 years. These invasive plants are strangling native plants too quickly. Crops are not looking as good. And the fresh water quality... ugh... I wouldn't let my pets drink it, it's gotten so bad.

[@lalitagotham2022]

इन पर

[@gunnurubeena4642]

Mmmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@jimjones8736]

​@@RR-on4sk Don't worry, when the Donald gets elected again he will make your winters great again😮

[@daletf176]

Thank you,DW! Salem from Kazakhstan!

[@jaimiehashey9233]

Awwno! My heart sinks. I have a thing for glaciers myself and to hear and see that they are disappearing hurts my heart.

[@nadyagazda885]

Bless your heart x

[@expansionone]

we have global warming since the last ice age, otherwise we would be still under 2 miles of ice... Climate change: the climate was and will never be static. It's dynamic, always changing and hardly ever predictable for more than 4 or 5 days.

[@rl9808]

Meanwhile at the factories, “ we need more! The population is growing”.

[@John-eq8cu]

Population must decline. So far today, nobody is having that conversation, because most civilizations hold that human life is sacred, and it would be a violation of basic rights to even *suggest* that people should control their own reproduction. But over time, I think that these social norms will also change. For a solution, look to Japan. They are currently dealing with population decline, and figuring out how to have a growing GDP with a shrinking population. It's possible, but it's a whole new economic system.

[@Helaw0lf]

@@John-eq8cu I got USA beat on curtailing my existence. I do not need a damn legacy or children to take my place. Funny how a recession caused in 2008 was enough for me to decide no more before going out into the world studying or working. Jobs were hard to come by during college and even afterwards, could not climb out of retail/warehouse hell. My goal back then was to continue my horticulture interests from high school. Sadly, I did not have a way into that industry as nepotistic shits barred teens/young adults from applying to greenhouses/landscapers. Really, had my science been up to snuff, I would consider root scientist like in DW's other documentary. US school system is good at keeping people from reaching for the stars. Never mind lack of opportunities for social mobility, or union jobs out of school until you can plot your next move.

[@mwmentor]

Whether or not there is controversy around climate change for whatever reason, is a reasonable or good idea to continue to add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, denude the world’s forests, etc. when there is more than just a little evidence that such behavior is contributing to the problem?

[@jamesbonde4470]

The contribution is a tiny fraction of the total C02. The total C02 is a tiny fraction of the total atmosphere.

[@YnseSchaap]

Nobody wants the party to be over, sums it up

[@baevoyage5194]

"Some people just want to watch the world burn" -Alfred

[@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963]

Pistol Pete Electricity isn’t bad inherently, more it’s where the electricity comes from.

[@toddlavigne6441]

that guy is typical.....he wants everyone else to consume less, not himself or his family. Big houses, big cars, private planes.....he is so full of crap

[@toddlavigne6441]

100% true

[@jgkratom6681]

News flash lmao it's already in course

[@richardnailhistorical3445]

Isn't it so wonderful how these young scientists can calculate how far a glacier will retreat in a minute but they can't figure out how human overpopulation brought us to where we are at today? They can't seem to connect the dots between overpopulation and sustainability - or is it that they don't want to connect the dots???

[@kangaroo1888]

Bit more complicated than that

[@sherryburrows2252]

It's just not politically correct to talk about overpopulation, as both political parties and other groups consider it un-PC to judge other cultures on how many children they have. Look, the first thing any culture does when offered real sex ed and access to birth control is limit their children from up to 10 down to 3 or less. Then, if women are offered a way to make their own money, often with microloans, it pulls up everyone around them. Their children can go to school, they can work and earn their own money, and they have power within their family and community. One of those powers is the power to decide when, and if, she decides to have sex. When the woman in a subsistance-farming family has no income of her own, even when she does all the work, her power within the family is little.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

it's not overpopulation Richard, it's hubris, GHG, and much greed

[@richardnailhistorical3445]

@@brianwheeldon4643 WRONG AGAIN, overpopulation is without doubt the cause of our current predicament - denying that fact is worse then denying climate change & it completely ignores simple math & physics but I know exactly why people like yourself deny OP, it has everything to do with religion, culture, tradition & human self importance over ecosystem. The human specie cannot 'evolve' past the point we are at now & it will cause the end of civilization as we know it. You are correct about hubris, GHG & greed but all those connect with OP. I am no doubt much older than you so take it from somebody with long life experience who has witnessed 'The Great Acceleration' with 2.3 billion exploding to 8 billion, overpopulation is THE PROBLEM!

[@richardnailhistorical3445]

@@nostarswithoutdarkness Your reply sounds more like 'irritation' with word 'overpopulation' than having an interest in solving the problem that brought us to this point? Yah, you could blame CEO's for everything but that does not satisfy as 'the root cause' for our predicament. CEO's/corporations do what they do because of 'demand', more specifically, public demand. Corporations produce 'x' amount of 'teddy bears/year' based on public demand. The CEO's didn't pollute the seven seas of the world - the public did that! You cannot disconnect the masses from the problem because 'they are the problem'! Your comment 'half of it is completely desolate' - yah, how true, and it's because that half is 'unlivable'!

[@richietattersall2122]

Less Ice and Snow on the ground = more water in the oceans. Once an Iceberg is floating, it melting does not raise the level, ice is 2/3rds the density of water.

[@jwarmstrong]

In the past cyclical oscillations the ocean was hundreds of feet higher than today -

[@benxdybarto]

Are you a bot?

[@richietattersall2122]

@@benxdybarto scientific fact, not fiction.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@jwarmstrong In the past these climatic changes happened much slower than they are today and there weren't billions of humans living on the world's coastlines. Your point is moot.

[@jwarmstrong]

@@BlGGESTBROTHER Wow you are really old to have seen this or are you Mr Imagination

[@GriffinBenchmark]

We better start thinking about what we're going to do "when" it changes and quit buying into the idea that we can change anything. In other words, start figuring out how we're gonna deal with the effects of climate change rather than what's causing it. We can't do anything about it.

[@So1ipse]

We can't avoid it but we can decide the order of magnitude. It's gonna at least be bad, but if the burn-it-and-pocket-the-loot crew are allowed to carry on then it's gonna be disastrous and potentially fatal. And I don't just mean fatal to a few million poverty stricken ignored-cos-wrong-color third worlders, I mean probable disaster to many of those who can't be arsed to complain because they're getting a new model of color telly next week.

[@justdev8965]

Figure out what? How to watch and die?

[@GriffinBenchmark]

@@justdev8965 Your prerogative. Some will adapt, some won't. If the human race gets stupid, none will survive. One thing's for certain, it all has an end someday. 😉 Until then, I'll live how ever I can and will most likely die before we ever notice to much of a difference at all.

[@GriffinBenchmark]

@@So1ipse There's no "potentially" about it. It's gonna be fatal and, eventually, on a catastrophic scale much bigger than you describe. Eventually it will be extinction. Period. We're naive to think any different. We're just another animal on the ball for a minute and then we'll be gone like all the rest have been and will be. There is no stopping anything. We're on a ball falling through nothing in the middle of nothing. Ultimately, we're nothing but future food for a black hole. 👍

[@bactanite]

Someday skiing will become a sport of the super-rich, and winter resorts will have to relocate to places in the arctic such as northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska.

[@gpettipas]

Politicians can control the climate ... right?

[@grip2617]

So look at it from a positive side. When the glaciers melt we can possibly grow more trees and crops. On a glacier nothing grows after all.

[@omyhaby1912]

And that's positive to You....!

[@s1nb4d59]

You guys really do put together great docos,keep up the great work DW.

[@dharmshilapandey1925]

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[@Dailyartpallette]

I must say this was most enjoyable , but the amount of damage done is unreversible.

[@SuperDdy]

unreversible... is not a word

[@JoeyStock]

Thank you for these documents. Great job, keep doing.

[@michaelsabella5924]

At 15:53, well there is somethings more important in life then just partying all the time. Folks need to wake up and take this stuff serious. Most folks could care less, as long as they have everything they need, new Iphone, latest clothes , cable TV, nothing else matters...

[@Jihane76]

I love the snow just in the summit of mountains !

[@wonka4]

You mean summit ?

[@Jihane76]

@@wonka4 Yes

[@kingk2405]

There was no Arctic and Antarctic ice at dinosaur’s time.

[@Dundoril]

And?

[@gfrankreddi3196]

The best documentary on climate change. Watched it full without any break. Thanks DW for such hard work and bringing awareness.

[@2Million-followers]

Experts: We're at a turning point. Mother Nature: You arrogant humains, you can do all studies and predictions you want, I will surprise you and strike when you expect me the least!

[@richietattersall2122]

Snow is water molecules that sublimate, more snow in one location means more water evaporated somewhere else. The only reason for more water to evaporate is a higher temperature or the same temperature for a longer period of time.

[@rustymugg9658]

You know it's over when the Alps glaciers are melting. They're trying to create snow covered slopes...Nature made it look so easy, the never-ending hubris of man. So sad 😞

[@nstl440]

The tone of this docu is pity for the people yet they all enjoyed a wastefull lifestyle.

[@The_bengali_political_analyst]

Amazing documentary. Loved it!

[@sheilendraahirwar2519]

Or togbdbbh

[@francoispellicaan8538]

The emphasis in the world is still on growth, on expansion. Whole economic systems are based upon growth and access to ever-greater amounts of resources. This cannot continue. That is why the change at hand is so monumental, so fundamental and far-reaching. Humanity will have to enter a different kind of paradigm, a different kind of emphasis overall that will have to be on stability and security, for you have reached the limits of what growth can produce. Excerpt from the book The New World by Marshall Vian Summers

[@hatrack5977]

Francois Pellicaan I’ve just been trolling most comments but yours is actually legit.

[@francoispellicaan8538]

@@hatrack5977 So, then read the book :-) You can buy it or read it online for free. You have to have an open mind, but it is so worth the time and the experience.

[@rajisingh13]

never-ending growth. Cancer works the same way.

[@johnobrien2207]

I think we should all quit work and grow some weed and get high

[@johnobrien2207]

@John Cass ..is that relevant

[@mujkocka]

Same here. Spring is so dry!

[@BRTanikus]

DW, best documentaries! Thank you

[@davidk7544]

I know it is a human need to remain hopeful that horrible things will stop. Unfortunately, that is the worst thing to do. These changes will continue to worsen, and planning on that, with an eye to adapting not just to the moment, but to ten years down the road, is the only thing that will keep people alive. It's important to avoid getting stuck on losing "the good old days", because that isn't part of the future. Shift gears with an eye on "contingencies", no prolonging suffering.

[@paulmitchell5349]

So,people FLY from Canada,which has rivers and mountains,to Slovenia,which has rivers and mountains?

[@dafyddil]

Yeah, it's ridiculous tbh. We need to outgrow this idiotic tourism for the sake of tourism

[@Swenthorian]

Alaska's in the USA; but yeah, fair point.

[@jenmb2679]

hey at least the mountains in Europe still have tops on them, unlike ours in usa

[@AmbitiousLearnWithGeorge]

if we get 3-4'C incrtease that will start changes leading towards fast 6'C-12'C increase due to methane release...we really don't know wehter the life on this planet will survive that change of atmospheric composition...it well might all end with that event

[@elitemedium]

Not only fossils fuel but also gravitational alinement of the neighboring planets.......

[@mudball47]

It's always another year and were all dead. The sky is falling, the sky is falling, chickenlittle said.

[@kelvinham8576]

Except the sky isnt falling but the pot is slowly getting hotter and you're one of the lobsters being slowly cooked alive!

[@thespecuber1319]

This video not only proves that global warming and climate change is a real thing but also that the steps taken towards its conservation work and we can't ho hopeless on our planet

[@fijnman3813]

Researchers being a bunch of party-poopers, showing the real face of tourism in the Alps. Great Documentary!

[@mickgatz214]

very interesting documentary, sanks for sharing Zis.

[@druadhlus7693]

Szats OK

[@2010invent]

That is interesting. The Alps got over 18 meters more snow this winter than in 2017 and 2018. I wander what data are these film makers are reading???

[@lonniedobbins]

The Facts Are. If they're wrong the people can stay. *If You're Wrong Many Will Die.* Even if wrong their being precautious Outweighs your saying that they're wrong. NOW! *Who Cares How Much Snow Fell When The Mountains Are Crumbling Down?* You think the snow will stop the mountain from crumbling?

[@dnickaroo3574]

In Switzerland they have been measuring the edge of glaciers since 1940, marking the edge every 5 years. There has been continuous loss of Glaciers over that time. Glacier National Park in NW USA had 150 Glaciers in 1915 -- today there are 26 Glaciers left..

[@swissdude7653]

They addressed that...

[@lonniedobbins]

@Steven Strain Evidently you think you said something intelligent!

[@normlor]

THOSE WHO CARE, HAVE BEEN SEEING THIS COMING FOR 50 YEARS AND THOSE WHO DON'T ...REALLY DON'T!!!

[@Skjerstad1812]

Once we can get our Political classes to understand that this GROWTH thing has to stop, maybe then we can do something about polution. Climate change, well, that has been going on since time began, i don't think we are going to be able to control the weather by increasing taxes.

[@joeking1019]

unfortunately geo engineering will be paid for through taxes

[@andrew30m]

Joe King 🤣🤣geo engineering, Chem trails?

[@philfluther2713]

['35:13'] !. ['39:21'] 'Eat, drink and be merry' without a care for the natural world in the world. Whoopee!

[@jockmoron]

Somehow, we've missed the glaring oxymoron, environmentally sound tourism. So a growing number of tourists are going to Slovenia off the beaten track? Pristine nature? So how do they get there? And how long will tourism allow pristine nature to survive? There is no such thing as environmentally friendly tourism - all tourism can damage the local environment, uncontrolled it damages the local society and it damages the planet's climate, causing the very problem that this whole documentary is about - did no-one making the programme see the dichotomy, the cognitive dissonance? I haven't read all the comments but I'm sure I'll not be the only one making this observation. We are watching the glaciers die today, tomorrow we'll be watching ourselves die.

[@chevtruck1000]

Currently it's political suicide for any politician to bring the topic up but eventually population control will become required. There is no chance of actual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with the rampant corruption involved with the recycling industry and corporate greed in big oil production. Once the tundra in northern Canada and Russia starts releasing it's stored methane things will go from bad to worse very quickly. I also find it amazing that large scale construction of cisterns to store meltwater hasn't yet begun.

[@____________aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Richard Anderson Those peat fires are expected to burn under ground for years... all million square miles of it. That tundra methane should be releasing at large scale over the course of that time. Co2 levels will easily hit 450-475 ppm and global temps at 2c by 2023 and we will see an Arctic blue ocean event by 2021. The year to watch out for is 2022... loss of jet stream, chaotic weather patterns and worldwide crop failure. Once the announcement of the exponential rise in co2, we will have panic and violence. So we may not suffer from starvation we might just murder ourselves from civil unrest instead.

[@NLR759]

We have millions of lakes that store fresh water already. The Great Lakes could supply North America for 100’s of years.

[@ianlonergan6585]

That’s my concern as well, that by the time the governments of the world starts taking our climate seriously it will be too late.

[@itsokay2606]

That's how we all do things basically. Nothing new

[@MountaineeringSense]

It has been too late since the end of World War II

[@bingosunnoon9341]

I witnessed the effects of global warming fifty years ago on the farm where I grew up. There was no doubt that automobiles caused the changes I saw then.

[@endeavorwebs719]

It was already too late by the industrial revolution and the exponencial increase of the population. We can't stop what is coming, maybe 5% of us will survive...

[@MountaineeringSense]

@@endeavorwebs719 It would probable be best for any hope of a Living Earth if Humans just went extinct.

[@nayanmalig]

Ice melts like hell in record summer heat - Who would have thunk ?

[@dennismiller5725]

We are species only 90,000 years old on a 4.5 billion-year-old planet. if we just measure industrialization from 1750 we are on an ever-increasing curve of global temp rise, does anyone really believe we can change the outcome.

[@Mary-iz8hg]

might be a little too late

[@kangaroo1888]

We can but change must happen now

[@jamesbonde4470]

Not true. We have been around for a million years.

[@mwj5368]

I stopped everything, thought I would watch a few minutes and come back after a break outdoors, but couldn't leave this. At times near tears. We need a rapid paradigm shift to on a major scale create devices that remove the carbon from the atmosphere. We can do it as look what they did during WWII and manufacturing at tremendous rates, and that was many years ago. I was several months in Grindelwald Switzerland in 1975 and 1976. The resort I did kitchen work for to earn travel money... Hotel Sunstar, the workers lived in the old chalet, which I liked much better than the new one ha! There was a beautiful oil painting of the valley there where (I don't know today but probably not visible any more) you could see how the glacier receded in the maybe 80 years prior. I was amazed then at how much the glacier receded. You could still see the glacier from the chalet then. I hiked along it on solid rock and saw mountain climbers in training climbing it. So if I saw that then, there's nothing new in regard to the glaciers receding too fast. I bet all that is receded by far more than it was then, maybe none of it visible from the chalet. Sad.

[@jamesbonde4470]

NO, plants NEED C02 to survive and make oxygen for us to breathe.

[@antonburdin9756]

Why when you talking about glaciers not mentioning that "studies show that solar variability has played a role in past climate changes. For example, a decrease in solar activity coupled with an increase in volcanic activity is thought to have helped trigger the Little Ice Age between approximately 1650 and 1850, when Greenland cooled from 1410 to the 1720s and glaciers advanced in the Alps". climate.nasa.gov/causes/

[@jamesbonde4470]

That's just it. It was CALLED Greenland because it once WAS green. Over the centuries, it cooled off and a massive glacier formed over most of it. Warm ocean currents from the southern oceans is what warms the British Isles and most of northern Europe. London is on the same latitude as Moosonee in Canada, and there, they get barely 2 months of summer.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Better read the science Anton, or you'll be in for a nasty shock. Anthropogenic Climate change is magnitudes bigger than solar variability. Good luck

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@jamesbonde4470 Greenland has been glaciated for hundreds of thousands of years. Not sure where you're getting your information from.

[@treedog25]

The earth has a heat pump cooling system that uses water as it’s planetary refrigerant. The earth receives more energy from the sun then it can radiate off. Water absorbs heat , changes form to gas and rises to the upper atmosphere. Once up in the upper atmosphere water changes form from gas to liquid or solid and in the process gives off the heat it carried up there from the surface of the earth. At the same time it becomes sub cooled by the coldness of the upper atmosphere and then falls back to earth as a solid or a liquid carrying extra cooling power to the earth. Remember, it is easily about -65 to -85 up there. If you have flown in a jet you know it colder than the poles up there. No wonder when record heat lifts records amounts of water up there, it comes down in record amounts of cold temperatures and snow falls. Sadly, most of the time, it misses the ski areas and falls where people wish it would not. This is why global warming is so misunderstood when it produces cold record temperature events as well as record heat events somewhere on earth. To say that the earth is just going to burn up or just rise in temperature is like saying when you start your car, that the engine is just going to experience engine warming until it burns up. No , it has a cooling system. With hotter temperatures, the cooling system will work that much harder and faster. So fast that no matter whether nature or man changes the composition of the air to retain heat, it will cool the Earth maintaining a overall temperature that life needs to be here. If it couldn't life would have ended long ago on this planet. This is why in many areas are seeing record floods and snows as other areas are seeing record heat. Usually while one hemisphere of the earth is having record heat, the other is experiencing record cold. When you know how a Automobile engine works you know what it should be doing. When you understand how a planet works, you know what it should be doing. The international Council on climate change should upgrade it’s Current climate model to one that includes water as a planetary refrigerant that carries heat from the surface to the upper atmosphere and the coldness of space down from the upper atmosphere to the planet. In other words, the earth heat pump cooling system model that uses water as its refrigerant. Does any of your scientists have any practical experience in Refrigeration and HVAC engineering ? If not, this will probably not make sense to them. In other words, if you don't know how your refrigerator or heat pump works, than learn about phase change and latent heat before you read more. You just won't get it. However....load calculations on a skyscraper or airframe can be applied to planet bodies , but that is for any one who cares to write me. or even read this....is there anyone,...Out there? (the Wall) So the good news is our planet will not just burn up or have run away heat rise. The bad news is, it will oscilate from heat events to cold events very quickly. As heat lifts water up in routinely great amounts, it means the same great amount of water will come down producing big cold events not just in winter but in the summer too. As global warming goes on this will be every year, all the time, year after year season after season. No longer will ideas like "storm of 100 or 1000 years have any meaning. Those that look to record cold snowy events as evidence there is no global warming don’t know they are looking in fact at evidence of global warming. And speaking of things people look at and don’t see, let’s talk about a more insulated atmosphere. A more insulative atmosphere is like putting a thicker blanket all around the earth. This means that the earth's core cannot radiate it’s heat as fast as it used to and heat is retained inside the earth. This retained heat will melt ever increasing amounts of rock. This melted rock will rise up to the surface as increased volcanic and earthquake activity. It is like a giant thunder cloud of molten rock rising up to the surface to give off the heat from the core to our surface, the one we stand on. Maybe the international climate change model should include this in its new heat pump cooling model? I think it should and I have a KZbin video that you can find if you type “flow tectonics”. When you see all these glaciers melt and yet the seas don’t rise, this is because all that water is in the air carrying heat from our surface to up to the upper atmosphere and the coldness of space down to our surface instead of causing sea rise as predicted. Any questions? Email me at [e-mail]

[@ruiFF77]

Interesting. Thank your for sharing.

[@Education_purpose87]

The future of economic stability will depend on renewable resources of energy 🙏

[@GR33TINGSEARTHL1NGS]

Fuck economic stability. Earth's stability will depend on our ability to look past and dismiss shared beliefs we have like "money", "economy" and "politics" to address the real world things happening around us.

[@thedon2743]

As long as we keep VW as the biggest car company in the world, that is all the matters, who need ice, water, and clean air?

[@citroniron3293]

Pretty narrow minded, are you?

[@jamesbonde4470]

@@citroniron3293 And while Tesla Motors builds electric cars, the German auto industry sleeps. They will go bankrupt soon enough and their diesel cars and trucks will be melted for scrap.

[@ohhi5237]

and vw's are one of the least polluting cars, mkay

[@VietboyGamerUSA]

well, people who denied climate changed it not yet effect where you live yet but it will catch you later.