What's behind European glaciers' alarming melting speed? | DW News

Glaciers in Central Europe have been melting faster than ever before, reaching their highest rates of disappearance since records began, according to a report published by the Swiss Commission for Cryospheric Observation (SCC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences on Thursday. The SCC report said Switzerland's glaciers have lost 10% of their volume in just two years of extreme heat. The glaciers lost a record 6% of their volume in 2022 and 4% in 2023. Up until now, years with an ice loss of 2% were described as "extreme." According to the data in the report, as much ice was lost in the last two years alone as was lost in the three decades between 1960 and 1990. Consecutive years of low winter snowfall and high summer temperatures have led to the disintegration of glacier tongues, it added. At the same time, many small glaciers have disappeared. Earlier this year, an EU climate report said 2022 had the most Alpine glacier retreat of any year.
What is behind the record melting rate?
In the south and east of Switzerland, the rate of glacier melting in 2023 almost matched the record rate from 2022. An average ice melt of 3 meters was recorded at altitudes above 3,200 meters, far more than was recorded during the unusually hot summer of 2003. That is an altitude at which glaciers were in equilibrium until recently.
The situation has been exacerbated by low snowfall. The warm winter at the end of 2022 into 2023 left the measuring sites with much lower snow coverage than usual. Conditions were slightly different at altitudes of over 1,000 meters. In the first half of February, snow coverage was somewhat higher than it had been in the low-snow winters of 1964, 1990 and 2007, but this changed in the second half of the month when depths dropped to new record lows and were around just 30% of the long-term average. In spring, the situation briefly returned to normal. However, the dry and very warm June caused the snow to melt two to four weeks earlier than usual. The third warmest summer since measurements began and temperatures at times hitting the limit of zero degrees until September were responsible for the fact that isolated summer snowfalls mostly melted quickly doing little to help the glaciers.
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[@gamingtonight1526]

Remember the Alps and other European Mountains allowed millions of people to have water to drink.

[@Rnankn]

That’s kind of the most important thing here. We have huge frozen water reservoirs on which civilizations and ecologies depend. Rivers start from glaciers in the mountains. Spring runoff is not possible without a winter snow pack. (Plus rapid melting first is a flood risk, as occurred in Pakistan)

[@notafantbh]

Yes, it's incredibly frustrating how these glacier melting news is covered like "what will happen to skiing resorts???". We're so freaking short-sighted in general.

[@dannmarceau]

"What's behind European glaciers' alarming melting speed? " If you have to ask, I pity your children, grandchildren...

[@NONAME-kw3pu]

VASECTOMY, WHEN REAlized all females already come with kids

[@Ejexion]

Please, indulge us, oh wise YT commenter.

[@jasminealixandranorth]

You should pity them either way - they have no future.

[@jamesmorrow1646]

@@Ejexion The planet is warming rapidly due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, far too rapidly.

[@AORD72]

As if a slightly warmer climate is a bad thing. A slightly warmer climate is better for life. Look along the equator lush and green and full of life. Look at the cold poles hardly any life.

[@cabanford]

I've lived in Zermatt for over 40 years (ex ski racer/instructor) and have watched the glaciers go from "melting" to "collapsing". The big switch was right around the year 2000. No snow. No rain. Every year a LOT hotter. Mystery solved.

[@mysterioanonymous3206]

Yeah, I live in the Swiss alps too and I can see them recede more every year. Some are already gone. This past September was constantly in the high 20s (hitting 30c in the sun) when it's supposed to be autumn and cooling. Absolutely insane. People have no clue what's coming. The Rhine starting to dry out last year is just a foretaste of what's to come. Glad I live in Switzerland. We'll soon dam and sell our water for the equivalent in gold. Man I'm glad I don't live in Spain. Let the water wars begin.

[@jasminealixandranorth]

Same here. Gstaad region. 15 years ago I looked out at a glacier. Now only left is a tiny sliver around the edges. Sad.

[@peterp4037]

@@mysterioanonymous3206 Spain is luckier than switzerland, they have ocean and can extract water from there. switzerland runs out of water as no more ice.

[@Bigwheels161616]

One wonder if this is just a natural cycle of growth and retreat. I hope people dont make wide sweeping assumptions from just a few decades of passive observation.

[@cabanford]

@@Bigwheels161616 Not much wonder involved here. Basic physics.

[@ProctorsGamble]

We will die in our filth while the debate goes on.

[@StressRUs]

Remember, the mega corporations controlling the narrative on climate collapse will keep lying to us in order to keep making profit right up to the end. Venus 2.0

[@uweschroeder]

Good. Too many humans anyways.

[@rodrigosenra2693]

well here in Brazil people burns fossil fuels like crazy even to blow the leaves away thats insane, so much trash around, so much poverty and misery...this isn't going to end well that's for sure.

[@olgacvetkova114]

Here in the UK many people are shopping like crazy before Christmas and stores push them to buy more and more. You can imagine the amount of fossil fuels burnt to produce, pack and transport all these items to supermarkets... lt is insane!!!!

[@uweschroeder]

It's going to end well. Humanity is going to be reduced in numbers to a fraction of today - which will do wonders for the ecosystems on the planet. Remember the planet isn't going anywhere - humans are.

[@Haegemon]

I remember when I was young and could go in Summer to the Alps to enjoy snow. This is a lost cause. Since the 90s at Kioto Summit for climate I only see dragging feet. We're are already late.

[@jpsion]

yeah why does europe and rest of the world keep industrializing

[@Bambeakz]

@@jpsion Even without inventing any polluting industry this would have happened. They found enough trees on glaziers from the old days to know they were green before. Climate always changes so don’t let them fool you. We should focus on pollution we can fix

[@JavenarchX]

Always pain before action. Sadly. The human condition

[@abody499]

No matter what is measured and what is found, there will still be many who deny deny deny. I think skiing is the least of the world's worries.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Funded by big oil, who will have you believe that climate activists are advocating for banning cars or any motor vehicle, blaming the individuals instead of the biggest burners of coal and oil. It needs to be replaced with a combo of nuclear and renewables. The billionaire oil barons do not want that.

[@davidmickles5012]

It's not really about that. The human contribution to the warming is not at all certain. The glaciers retreating have been documented as happening for a hundred years or more, that indicates a "natural" cycle as being the major force behind warming. Are WE contributing to the warming? Certainly, but the amount and HOW we are doing so is a point of contention. Politics.. We also are being lead by politicians who are hypocritical, self serving and inconsistent on the issue which creates an atmosphere of stagnation and distrust. Finally, you have personalities that spew hyperbolic "crisis" messaging as though if we would only stop driving our cars the world would "INSTANTLY cool off" - this is nonsense! There is almost nothing we can do now that would have a noticable impact on global temperatures any time in the next 20 years. We are not gonna stop wildfires or hurricanes by banning gasoline cars. If you are talking about 50-100 years from now then yes, well thought out action is probably warranted but panicking is not gonna help anything and will likely be a very bad thing for many people.

[@jamesmorrow1646]

@@davidmickles5012 CO2 levels have gone from 280 ppm to 415 ppm in the Industrial Era due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions. CO2 is a potent Greenhouse Gas and the validity of the Greenhouse Effect Theory is scientifically undisputed. Without the increase in CO2 the planet should be slightly cooling. Humanity is entirely responsible for the 1.2 degrees C increase in temperature in the Industrial Era.

[@abody499]

it's not really worth replying to them@@jamesmorrow1646

[@abody499]

yt hashiddenyourcomment@@Thor.Jorgensen

[@schlafcomandante5662]

What's behind European glaciers' alarming melting speed? ExxonMobil, Shell, British Petroleum, Gazprom, Equinor, Chevron, ......

[@highdesertsurvivor1021]

Stop listening to 📺 TV Programs and do your own research to learn the truth because man 👨 and geo engineering is the problem

[@schlafcomandante5662]

PS.. the US military is the biggest consumer of fossil fuel.

[@auldfouter8661]

Those companies aren't using the oil. Oil is used by people - almost all of us are the problem.

[@peao010109]

@@auldfouter8661 If you keep blaming the people, barely anything will get done. Get rid of the problem by it's roots and everything will get done. Fossil fuel companies and policies favoring them have completely taken over our energy sources, and shut down any alternatives. People need to use fossil fuels for survival, as no alternatives are provided. Get rid of the source, the fossil fuel companies and the policies, and better alternatives will be provided, which people will quickly adapt to. The people can make a small difference, yes. But nowhere close to what our leaders can.

[@jimthain8777]

@@auldfouter8661 Actually it's both that are the problem. You could say the companies are the Macro level of pollution, and we are the Micro level of pollution. The thing is every little bit counts. The steps I've taken, (small as they are) do count. If the majority of 8 billion people just did one thing to reduce their pollution/CO2 it would make a surprising difference. (That majority of 8 billion people includes the CEOs of all the major, and many minor corporations too.)

[@gorillabang79]

This can all be solved by asking the good people of Texas, Louisiana, and the rest of the American south to pray for the glacier and to reverse the effects of climate change and global warming. Just look at what happened after they prayed to stop all the mass shootings in America. Exactly, more mass shootings. But let's not get disheartened, the glacier melting stuff is something their prayers will take care of in no time.

[@A3Kr0n]

For the love of God don't do that! They prayed for rain once and now the hurricanes keep coming!

[@coraltown1]

better ask Europeans to stop crying while burning carbon .. they bankrolled Putin's murderous military for 30 yrs via oil/gas/coal purchases .. go do that.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

I'm a Canadian and I'm not keen on being buried under a fresh continental glacier because the hillbillies to our south pray for it.

[@A3Kr0n]

We'll keep going faster and faster until we can't. Nature Bats Last

[@jasminealixandranorth]

And only love remains…..

[@gerryhouska2859]

Australia is helping by opening new coalmines and gas fields as fast as donations roll in.

[@BubblesTheCat1]

South Africa is contributing by destroying all the trains that transport the coal for export. They now truck all the coal to port.

[@olivermoore7020]

UK is helping by opening up new oil/gas fields in the North Sea.

[@AORD72]

What rubbish. AU just hit a record of solar production.

[@BubblesTheCat1]

@@AORD72 Way too little, way too late. Solar isn't going to save us from the looming climate catastrophe.

[@Onequietvoice]

How can anyone seriously still be asking this question?

[@Ejexion]

Well, I bet you don't even know, so it is worth asking after all.

[@werner.x]

@@Ejexion Everybody knows by now. If he want to believe or not. The only real question left is: How does Europe deal with the upcoming change - lack of snow water run off, which affects the way we live and use our rivers, changing landscape, changing environmental conditions and how to deal with the dangers of sudden rainfall and loose wet ground. Interesting times ahead.

[@Ejexion]

@@werner.x You have not identified the what, and saying "everyone knows" is foolish indeed. The masses are almost always wrong.

[@werner.x]

@@Ejexion Really? We get it hammered in every day with the biggest sledge hammer our gouvernment could afford. 24/7. Speaking about Germany, though.

[@Liquidreflective]

@@Ejexion Ah yes the ubiquitous oil company stooge

[@nsbd90now]

"Everything is becoming grey and stark."

[@patrick247two]

I'd like to thank everyone who is working so hard to ensure we reach the RCP 8.5 target.

[@craigb8228]

We are all hoping for a solution where we can use less electricity and transportation while maintaining a robust economy.

[@HAPninKEN]

The Earth see's People as a Cancer... it keeps trying to flush itself, over and over and over

[@NONAME-kw3pu]

when there is no more motor/fuel oil by 2060 for mega tractors/cultivators/trucks/ships/boats/scooters , jets... the population will come down. no more fertilizers? much of it made from natural gas. natural gas heat in many homes as it is 2.5x+ more efficient than electric heat. had "heat pump" installed on house... electric bill in mild winters in desert was 3x more expensive than natural gas heat... in country floating on natural gas waiting to be drilled up and have to frac it or nothing comes out of the ROCKS so $10-15 million on a hole in the ground that nothing comes out of. ... if dont crack the formation with high pressure pumps and inject sand to keep the cracks open for the oil/gas to come out of the formations

[@ProctorsGamble]

And one day the earth 🌏 will shake us off like so many fleas on a dog

[@jasminealixandranorth]

@@ProctorsGamble - 🙏

[@oneshothunter9877]

@13ased_American Great idea. 😂 Earth itself will be fine though. Life on earth, not so much.

[@matthewbaynham6286]

The Earth is the lump of rock which is going to still be a lump of rock. The important stuff is the stuff that lives on the surface of the Earth, all this living stuff is what is in danger of extinction.

[@CHMichael]

How many people depend on that water for drinking? At what point is hydro power in danger.

[@SkyeRangerNick]

What are we going to do if the glaciers are gone by 2030? Seems we are being hopeful with regard to melting.

[@AORD72]

Nothing, because it will have little effect on life.

[@StressRUs]

The Swiss glaciers will be gone in 18yrs or less, and all the ice on the planet, our global AC, by 2,100, or 77yrs from now. Venus 2.0?

[@AORD72]

@@StressRUs "Venus 2.0?", talk about hysteria. Even when the CO2 was around 2000 ppm before humans the climate didn't run away. Even the IPCC say that there won't be a thermal runaway. The average temperature of the planet is only 15 degrees C. The majority of people live in houses with heating. Why do you think we wear clothing (because it is cold). Look along the equator, green lush and full of life because of the warmth. Look at the poles, cold and hardly any life. Life thrives in the warmth. The slightly warmer climate is better.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

How much of the drinking water in Europe originates from alpine glaciers? All of the great rivers spring from there.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Just because the ice melts, doesn't mean precipitation stops.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

@@anthonymorris5084 No, but if what you are drinking is "legacy" water that was frozen into a glacier thousands of years ago, precipitation isn't going to keep up with the previous precipitation PLUS the melting ice that you are consuming now. The North American Western cities have the same crisis looming. They consume current precipitation plus melt water from the past precipitation.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@abrahamdozer6273 Golly, how do you suppose billions of people survive where there are no glaciers? The "crisis looming" in Western cities is solely caused by over population. It's what happens when 40 million people of California build massive cities in the desert. What you have in fact described is a population crisis not a water crisis, but heck, let's just blame everything on climate change. Why ruin such a good narrative. Facts just spoil everything.

[@bigwombat7286]

This is such a mystery. We will never know what is causing this.

[@tomholy]

Love your sarcasm.

[@jasonallatt5410]

😂😂😂

[@jameslevenick7307]

Forgot to mention the microscopic soot (from Diesel engines). Thought that was the explanation. So small it mixes evenly with the atmosphere, but tends to come down where there is a downdraft (like over glaciers), and once it's down it heats in the sun and makes a tiny drop of water which then acts as a lens and melts more... ...all summer... And, what can you do about it? Absolutely nothing!!

[@theharper1]

Stop using diesel engines? The problem with soot is that it makes a dark layer on top of ice and snow, absorbing heat and accelerating melting.

[@jimthain8777]

Yes you can, you can stop burning diesel. The solution is easy, getting past the need for people to make lots of money of things like diesel is the hard part.

[@theharper1]

@jimthain8777 agreed, the main thing holding back the transition away from fossil fuels is companies making vast amounts of money from selling them.

[@dh88k]

@@theharper1 @jimthain8777 Diesel makes the world go around, all the heavy machinery, earth movers, resource extractors, cargo truck and ships run on diesel. Renewable energy schemes couldn't see the light of day without diesel. I agree that diesel should be ban on cars, light trucks and other applications. But let's face it, the main culprit is you and me following the cult of consumerism like zombies.

[@StressRUs]

And, also, buy local, reuse, reduce consumption, and recycle to reduce the need for transoceanic mega-container ships (over 100 in service) carrying mostly cheap labor made consumer "products" from poorer to wealthier nations and burning bunker fuel producing as much CO2 as all of the autos on the planet, and that's by just 60 of them. We are the problem and WE are the solution, however hard we try to deny our role in climate collapse.

[@Chanchanlala]

as much people really hate Greta Thunberg, she is Right

[@LathropLdST]

She is part of the problem. She travels in contaminating means of transportation. Everything she does is for clout. If she was a true activist, and not a puppet of her obnoxious parents, she would have united the various ecologist groups and created a real action force, not looking like the child from the Exorcist in front if a microphone.

[@nidhinv8406]

Germany smiling in corner after burning record coal fossiles and shutdown of emmision free nuclear power😅😅😅

[@harrym740]

She's a spoiled snob who never worked in her life.

[@rd4660]

It's hilarious that DW is so focused on weather porn.

[@highdesertsurvivor1021]

Ya it is lol.... it's called fear porn

[@8fledermaus8]

​@@highdesertsurvivor1021oil pilled npc

[@peao010109]

@@highdesertsurvivor1021 Hah! I agree! Releasing massive excesses of co2 into the atmosphere can't have any consequences on the earth. I threw 30 plastic bottles into the ocean before. Never seen them again! Guess the earth just dealt with them!

[@gayanhewegeonline4594]

This channel has the most professional and bebeautiful thumbnail designs on youtube!

[@behzadnourani3195]

That s very dangerous. Each person must Start acting to deal with climate change.

[@jasminealixandranorth]

But the Kardashians. Don‘t worry, they won‘t!

[@gerryhouska2859]

Stop blaming individuals, it is the government and corporations who refuse to act.

[@behzadnourani3195]

@gerryhouska2859 thanks for your reply, but isn't it us (individuals) who must try to vote for politicians who care more about these types of issues? And also we can create groups who are pushing the governments to act accordingly

[@Nowherenear-w1d]

Not persons. States and regulators, big business, industry. Persons can't do much and have been doing it all the time last 40 years

[@behzadnourani3195]

@@Nowherenear-w1d i agree, but these regulators and organisations are made of humans and also influenced by humans ... individuals must keep gathering and pushing for major changes in regulations and rules to address climate change and earth pollution

[@amadeuz8161]

Everyone seems to forget that this all started when we noticed that removing particles from the air started warming the weather. We noticed that it wasn't a healthy thing to have holes in the ozone layer at about the same time. My point is that we did something about the stuff making a hole in the ozone layer but it took this long to start to do something about the other thing. Like why even bother anymore because all you have done since it was proven that the particles kept the temperature down is to increase the need of energy. I was around 10 years old and understood that we had to do something so why did it take you 50 years to figure this out? Is it because now it also affects you? Back in the 90's we had people screaming about it because we up in the north started to get winter without snow, summers with extreme long +25 or above temps and now you care after 30 years... Are your pockets full of money now so now you can care?

[@amadeuz8161]

You complain about fossil usage, but still during the last 30 years you have forced more people to rely on having a car, you have forced people to buy everything in plastic instead of paper and glass, you produce products that last 3 years instead of 30 years... Like nothing has been done except the stuff that increases profits. I call this insanity but you living in your bubbles probably feel like you have done all you can and the comforts added in the last 30 years was a "must have".

[@huginug]

The solution has to happen from the top, not the bottom. We can't put all of the responsibility on the consumers. But we built our economies on endless consumerism so we will continue driving ourselves into extinction

[@amadeuz8161]

@@huginug Everyone is at fault or at least the majority because else we wouldn't have gone this way. I also laugh at people eating for 3-4 persons, driving to the gym to build muscles they dont need so its not only the ones at the top. Like we have so many insane things that we just don't need and much of it is just superficial, like it doesn't even improve anything else than a insane idea that people seem to get from the society.

[@larsg4697]

@@huginug I think thats a false narrative. We choose our governments, and we see more and more governments that deny science because its not in their favor. We as consumers has to start choosing, everytime we go to the store, we got to a pooling station in a way

[@uweschroeder]

Well, let's see. About 6000 years ago the Alps were pretty much ice free except for the highest peaks. So complaining about ice melt in 3000m and lower is pretty much historically insignificant because we've been there a few thousand years ago, which in geological terms is not even a blip.

[@SilverforceX]

6000 years ago, there were no glaciers in the Alps. Don't believe me? Look it up.

[@leannevandekew1996]

Should show Haute Route ski cabins before (at glacier level) and after with stairways and now rickety ladders to the cabins now at tops of cliffs hundreds of feet high.

[@OldOneTooth]

Want a solution to today's problems vote for the right politicians forty years ago when you were warned of the problem. Don't want the even worse problems 25 years from now. Vote for the politicians prepared to make the necessary changes now.

[@raykleiner3151]

Whilst leading a group up to the summit of Kilimanjaro last August, I was shocked to see the glaciers, which have been around for 300,000 years, will no longer be there in 5 years time. Its already too late!

[@anthonymorris5084]

This prediction has been made, incorrectly, for decades. Even if they disappear, so what? Was the mountain created by a God who deemed it shall forever remain snowcapped?

[@StressRUs]

Thanks for you and your "group's" contribution to burning fossil fuels to speed the ice melt.

[@lbs7774]

@Anthonymorris, it's a whole ecosystem below that depends on that snowcap. Are you serious?

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@lbs7774 Precipitation doesn't end just because the snow cap melts. The vast majority of humanity do not depend on snowcapped mountains. Anytime an ecosystem evolves or changes it doesn't equate to something negative or catastrophic. Glaciers and snowcapped peaks have been melting and receding for 10,000 years, nothing died.

[@lbs7774]

@@anthonymorris5084 Precipitation is getting less and less every year and THAT is the main reason they are at risk because they are not being replenish enough in winter. The dryness of the high mountains is getting worse every year with the warmer weather. And also the warmer weather makes them melt faster. It's an exponential problem. And these glaciers provide the water that goes to the lower areas. You know water is needed for life. Again. Are you serious??! Or are you being payed to spread misinformation by an oil company?

[@nwbasson]

Hahaha, we are all so screwed!

[@srfndabike]

Every year, records will break. We're just ACTING surprised nowadays

[@patrickstarnes2355]

”Accept and adapt ”🙉

[@jimthain8777]

Change and adapt. We need to change how we do things, or all the adaption in the world won't save civilization.

[@TheDoomWizard]

Faster than expected!

[@JP-sw5ho]

None of this matters because Volkswagen employees all need to keep their jobs

[@peao010109]

Switching to renewables will provide plenty of new workplaces.

[@yetao5801]

...is Europe's alarming inability to relinquish its privileged lifestyle.

[@mysterioanonymous3206]

😂 Mate you can see Chinas industrialisation in climate charts. 1.4billion people buying houses and cars with money they earned in factories. Europe is already starting to shrink, so whatever. What's actually going to tip this thing over is 6 billion people in completely underdeveloped areas who want what we have. Europe, the entire west can vanish today and it wont change a single thing.

[@catalina5382]

I don't wanna say that EU/Europe is doing much but on the list of the first 25 countries that emit most CO2 per capita, there is barely any Eu country. Countries like Canada USA or south Korea are far worse. And Estonia idk what the heck is wrong with Estonia.

[@yetao5801]

It is not a competition to be the most polluting, my dear Catalina:)@@catalina5382

[@americolopes8104]

No matter what we do the reality is we passed de point of no return good luck to all of us but lots of good luck to our kids and gran kids

[@EngineVSEngine]

lol..gee where have I heard that before: Associated Press Nov. 2, 1922..The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.”

[@Liquidreflective]

@@EngineVSEngine Simping for oil companies how pathetic

[@AORD72]

Rubbish. A warmer climate is better for humans.

[@StressRUs]

Europe has experienced a 1.5 degC ave. temp rise in just the past 30 yrs.!

[@sixvee5147]

May the Anthropocene (Pyrocene (?)) epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earths history. Seems more and more likely, scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment may become a reality. If it does, enjoy what you can, while you still can; pity the next 3 to 5 generations to come.

[@StressRUs]

I hereby nominate you for a dynamite cup by inventing the term "Pyrocene".

[@felixmoyoedonmi]

So what is the problem? Let the ice melt. Let the sun fall from the sky. The universe will never cease to be. Existence will always exist.

[@bigoldgrizzly]

Existence will always exist ... Yes but without the human race

[@regu6582]

Too bad we will not be around to record it.

[@Rick-qf5de]

Throughout history only cannibals has made it through to the other side to repopulate the Earth...

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

@@Rick-qf5de Soylent Green creates jobs and housing! Soylent Green for a better tomorrow!

[@Bodhisattva777]

How do you know? You did not exist before you were born and you will no longer exist after you die. Similarly, there is a birth of the universe called big bang, it's expanding at ever increasing speed, and one must assume there will be an end to it. It will stop expanding and it will cool down, that is certain, because the hydrogen that fuels stars is finite. All that begins, must end, there is also entropy one must take into account. "The universe will never cease to be. Existence will always exist." This is clearly your own fear of death, non acceptance of the fleeting nature of all things. The problem is that humans are still not switching to green alternatives and are causing global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels.

[@joseenoel8093]

These 2 probably drove to their jobs just like everyone else!

[@KarelBeelaertsvanBlokland]

Nothing new! Old tree remains have been found under glaciers! Warm periods on Earth come and go as it HAS BEEN for million of years already!

[@jamesmorrow1646]

The Climate changes for a reason. Currently the planet is warming rapidly due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, far too rapidly.

[@Onequietvoice]

The same rercycled and incorrect arguements that have been circulating around denialist dens for over 20 years. Discredited disinformation. The only type of recycling I do not approve of!

[@AA-vi1cc]

Never this quickly. The C13 Suess effect proves our fossil fuel emissions are causing it

[@StressRUs]

We burned 8,000,000,000 TONS of coal in 2021, and we burn 100,000,000 BARRELS of oil PER DAY, 18M just in the US. Perhaps, that can help explain why the glaciers are melting. Just a wild guess.

[@retireeelectronics2649]

Guess it is time for operation white wash. All areas of the mountains that are not eco sensitive gets a good coating of white wash preferabley with the titanium dioxide type that works on removing NOx as a byproduct.

[@kurtilein3]

If you cannot get a cover of vegetation going, painting it white is the next best thing.

[@mack-uv6gn]

We’re screwed

[@peao010109]

Lots of people are going to be screwed. You may be screwed, I may be screwed. But once it's gotten bad enough, the world will be changed for the better, and the policy to make that change will be written in the blood of potentially hundreds of millions, perhaps a few billions of innocent lives. Good living historically needs human sacrifices. Just the way the world works, nothing to be sad or angry about.

[@mack-uv6gn]

@@peao010109 that was dark. If the climate adjusted too much no one may survive.

[@danielvahnke3369]

Nice way of ignoring the skiing effect issue brought up.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Skis and other equipment are made from fossil fuels. To get to the mountains requires fossil fuels. Just sayin'.

[@dogtagz123]

Sad fact of life. It's too late!

[@zen1647]

I wonder what could be causing it? It's like the climate could be changing or something...

[@gavinlew8273]

Everyone knows its climate change, but everyone else (esp. big business) is unwilling to change. It's always profit before environment. Change is apparently "too expensive".

[@werner.x]

No one can stubbornly insist, that there must not be change. No change, that's not going to happen. Time to adjust plans.

[@jsEMCsquared]

Future water crisis in 5 4 3 2 years

[@keithw8286]

Think it’s bad now? Hold that thought

[@Bambeakz]

Funny that people still think we can change this around. People lived without glaziers and even the icecaps before but we try to forget that part of history so it seems. We can’t turn around temperatures on this planet. Stop living that fantasy and just focus on the pollution and things we can change.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

And when was it that people lived without glaciers before?? And it's not relevant to say the early Homo sapiens or Neanderthals of the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

[@youtube7076]

we dont use ice in my country, it is all for drinks? or is there some industrial application it is required for?

[@ozehtdz6777]

On the other hand here in Northern Ireland, in the entire July temperature have risen above 20° 5-7 times and was raining more than usual. Sure summer is never outstanding here, but that's much below the average. It did feel like autumn already.

[@HuplesCat]

What a strange title? Human caused climate change is not a question in 2023

[@Zonker66]

Was he really talking about skiing?

[@oversears]

These scientists sound like they know something 😂 just wait

[@johnvoelker4345]

ice kills life the only reason we have glaciers is because we are currently in a major ice age most of our eon (the Phanerozoic) has been ice free, year round, even at the poles

[@alexlalonde9708]

We need to go to both polls with massive snow making machines sucking water from the ocean to make snow trying to build back the snow that's been lost!?!! Second (EVERY) roof facing the sky needs to be the color white or some sort of reflective surface!?

[@mysterioanonymous3206]

Look man, that's cute and all but there's 6 billion people in poverty that are underdeveloped. You go and tell them they can't have US and European lifestyles and standards of living, ok? No car, no AC, no holidays by airplanes, no industrialisation, none of that. Because they want it, and they will do everything to get there and the emissions will be off the charts. Not sure white rooftops will fix that...

[@Rnankn]

Yea there is a proposal for lots of mirrors, which would be odd but are at least physically guaranteed to do something

[@gerryhouska2859]

Compulsory wearing of tin hats will also help to reflect infrared radiation back into space.

[@quannga99]

Que sera sera.

[@russmian6078]

we are having July weather in Oct ...

[@ivanlys4377]

With 7000 arriving daily in southern italy climate chnage is about to become the least of your problems lol

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

I notice that xenophobes like yourself love to exaggerate numbers to make the problem worse than everything else!! 🙄

[@davidreynolds3082]

33, 45 or 78rpm???

[@NONAME-kw3pu]

33 rpms

[@r.1599]

Time to start stretching large white tarps over the glaciers in an attempt to prevent melting... ☹

[@EdwardM919]

At this point, people need to realize it's not going to matter whether the warming is caused by humans or something else. At the rate it's going, we'll be lucky if a small portion of humans will survive. Wealthy people realized that a long time ago, obviously, why hoarding or wealth has become so much worse recently. Every man for himself. I know if it came down to my family eating and a rich man, I'm cooking that rich man.

[@AORD72]

Total rubbish. Ice melting is not going to kill off humanity.

[@anthonymorris5084]

This is why we don't take you folks seriously. No scientist on the face of the Earth is predicting the demise of humanity. Wealthy people don't "hoard" money. It's in circulation. Thousands of other entrepreneurs and investors utilize it to generate further wealth, you know, like creating faster internet speeds so you can happily enjoy KZbin during said "crisis".

[@HuplesCat]

It’s caused by humans. It’s not debatable anymore

[@AORD72]

@@HuplesCat That is not correct. It is caused by both humans and natural climate change. Do you think humans have caused the previous glacial cycles? Milankovitch clearly pointed out that there are orbital variations that have a big influence on our climate. There facts are well known. We have a big natural temperature variation of about 12 degrees in some places over 100,000 years. There is also natural sea level variation due to this of about 120 meters. Climate change is nothing new. But is changing faster I hear you say. The temperature, slightly, but nothing that can't be handled considering the natural daily variation of a anywhere on the planet can already be as much as 20 degrees. 14500 years ago the sea level was changing at a rate of 40-66 PER YEAR (currently 3mm per year). Whilst the variation should be watched, and action to ensure we don't suffocate ourselves we are far far far away from that. Already massive changes have been implemented and we are likely to completely move away from fossil fuels within the next 25-50 years, because electricity from wind solar combined with batteries and possible fusion reactors will make fossil fuel uneconomical. Probably by 2100 people will be panicking about the next glacial maximum when it will be super cold. It is going to be harder for people to survive with less energy, plants are going to have a harder time to grow then.

[@StressRUs]

Now, where'd I put that A-1 Sauce?

[@littlebrit]

They cut all the trees. Where you have a little slope to make a ski run, trees will be cut. Profit maximization on every centimeter of the land.

[@RS265trophy]

who cares about the skislopes when such climatic events take place ? people don't get it.

[@MOHANKUMAR-qj4ce]

its tooo late impact is un controllable

[@northeastpyro8796]

Just build a big underground freezer

[@anthonydoyle7370]

The archaeologists must be champing at the bit to get up there to see what artefacts have been uncovered.

[@waylandforge8704]

Has anyone told china ?

[@JavenarchX]

These are pretty naive things to be saying.... since we have known since the 80s about global warming and receding glaciers

[@creepyclowns]

Step 1: let's stop having environmentalists fly from all over the world for conferences. I know it's free travel to exotic locations, but video conferencing is wonderful these days.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Why pick on environmentalists when there are literally millions of others flying around the world??

[@kjdtm]

No worries guys... nothing will change at all... just sit back and try no to cry to much...

[@anthonymorris5084]

Given a choice between warming and using fossil fuels, or ending fossil fuels and enduring abject poverty, I'll take warming. No contest.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@C-lp6jb Unfortunately for you, dissenters are growing in numbers.

[@ImproveYourMagic]

You will know poverty in a 2.5°C world.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@ImproveYourMagic And naturally you have evidence to back up such hyperbole? After 200 years of warming, 200 years of growing fossil fuel production and 43 years of abject climate hysteria, warming has proven to be mostly benign, easily managed and a net benefit to humanity.

[@PAVANZYL]

The sea is rising by 3,2mm/year. If melting glaciers account for 20%, where does the rest come from?

[@AA-vi1cc]

Steric (thermal) expansion

[@peao010109]

Water expands as it gets hotter.

[@jimthain8777]

Water expansion, AND melt water from Greenland, and Antarctica's Ice sheets. Think of glaciers as ice cubes, and Greenland/Antarctica as a skating rink. Now imagine what would happen if those two melted as fast as the mountain glaciers are!

[@desolateones]

​@@jimthain8777rinse and repeat your ridiculous theories rather than seeing climate as an evolving event you see it as the cataclysmic end to life if we don't do something now.. Wobble your head ffs

[@Ian-vj5pv]

Good for geologists - more outcrops, poor glaciologists

[@scorpion8375]

I don't care anymore TBH - we cannot do anything just have to save ourselves - it's shit, but it is what it is let's be honest we won't stop this

[@mysterioanonymous3206]

Nope. No we won't I guess. Some will make it, many won't. It's not going to be pretty...

[@jasminealixandranorth]

I do care - about all of the innocent animals that will suffer as a result of human stupidity and hubris. As for the rest, I say bye bye.

[@catalina5382]

Considering that trillions of animals are killed by humans every year for consumption, the fact that we die might actually save some innocent animals or kill less. We have already killed about 70% of the wildlife in the last 50 years. The weight of livestock is currently 30 times the biomass of wild terrestrial mammals and 15 times that of wild marine mammals.

[@scorpion8375]

@@jasminealixandranorth the evolution will continue so life will continue, and humans will survive - the richest ones and the ones prepared - all those survivalists and preps - they call them paranoid but when the shit hot the fan their families will rebuild humanity - I'm in no position to talk, no one will listen to me - I realised that I have to take care of myself

[@jasminealixandranorth]

@@scorpion8375 - I don’t think the rich or the preppers will survive either - just maybe a little bit longer. Hopefully humanity will not be rebuilt. That would be a catastrophe!! All the best!

[@vinodmohandas9481]

Most person in the world knows what's the cause of climate change, but sad things is nobody is not doing something to reduce climate change. We are addicted to fossil fuels but we must change our way or style or our choices of living.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

"nobody is not doing something" meaning everyone is doing something or didn't you know you had a double negative in that comment??

[@ОлександрСокіл-л3щ]

Those, who likes ice, can relocate themselfs into fridges.

[@peanutButterJe11y]

Such a shame. Switzerland is beautiful.

[@MrLoobu]

If you people care, you're about 20 years too late. These are your rewards.

[@billpetersen298]

China has promised to stop increasing its coal burning, by 2030. Till then, it’s two new coal plants a week. Think of that, if you buy one of their EV’s.

[@wmanadeau7860]

We need to change out collective trajectory. So far we are failing to adapt in a way that will ensure the survival of our civilization. Change is accelerating. We can fight over the remaining resources, or we can act like the intelligent beings we are supposed to be and work together. Individual weather related crises are becoming one ongoing crisis, and yet so far we are only reacting, not acting proactively. Changes are coming and we are not prepared. We did this, the Great Waves of Change are here - look it up.

[@jimmyrichardson67]

its not the 2100 figures we should be worried about its what will be lost in the next 10 years that should worry us. its not going to happen in a nice straight line, there will be a tipping point, when it will all crash

[@ricknico2577]

Same questions and same answers, but not a lot happening.

[@loganmain4244]

Can everything end already…

[@HybridAndroid_]

​@@aaronhelvig9444don't think there's a permanent design even if they did.. climate change will continue even with or without you too so..

[@Onequietvoice]

Do not despair .. do something positive - cut your emissions - plant some trees - do what you can even if it does not seem like much it is better than nothing.

[@jasminealixandranorth]

@@Onequietvoice and GO VEGAN!!!

[@peao010109]

@@Onequietvoice Your feedback is bad. What you need to do is put pressure on your leaders to make a change. Rallying millions of people to make lifestyle changes wont do much, besides it's very hard. Rallying millions of people to critisize leaders to make them change society's industries, corporations, vehicles and population to emit much less co2 will do ALOT more. Blame the leaders, not the people. They got us into this mess!

[@Onequietvoice]

I am encouraging people to take individual responsibility precisely because the government and other vested interests act too slowly if at all. Taking action yourself makes you 10 times more effective in presuading others. It is good for people to have skin in the game.@@peao010109

[@pb_8206]

good

[@EngineVSEngine]

How many SUVs did it take to end the last ice age?

[@johnd.5601]

Hedge funds robbed my retirement savings so I'm buying an old diesel truck. Didn't want to but that's the cost of having to many hedge funds in America. The other major issue is monetary tightening policy. Poor people drive old cars.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Glaciers have been melting for 10,000 years. Why is this suddenly dangerous?

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@C-lp6jb Are you seriously claiming that you're unaware of this historic event? You must be joking.

[@brmadden895]

It's problematic because local populations rely on glaciers as part of their water supply. That's true of plant/animal life as well.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@brmadden895 They rely on snowfall, not glaciers. Precipitation isn't going to magically disappear.

[@brmadden895]

@@anthonymorris5084 as I'm sure you know, precipitation patterns aren't consistent, particularly in the mid latitudes. That's why we have reservoirs. If you live in a highland region where any water that doesn't freeze flows downhill, you're going to rely on glacier water more than you may think.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@brmadden895 Your propensity is to naturally and automatically believe that all change is catastrophic. This is irrational and you have zero evidence for what you believe. You're speculating on future events which is the modus operandi of every climate alarmist. It's the fundamental argument for the last 43 years. "Just you wait, it's going to be bad, you'll see". Repeat decade after decade in perpetuity. *"as I'm sure you know, precipitation patterns aren't consistent,"* Ah, so it might rain even more than it snowed? My friend, glaciers aren't going to disappear by 7:00 am tomorrow morning. People have time to adapt to any new realities. Where I live it snows all winter and it rains in the summer. We have no glaciers, and we survive just fine like billions of others. When it doesn't snow it rains. When it rains it forms rivers and lakes that consistently exist in mountain regions. You have been indoctrinated to fear everything, embrace pessimism and view everything with hyperbole. I have no interest in this kind of mentality.

[@eurlovegisbert6846]

Where is going the heat that no more ice have to melt? In the climate change, is the most important thing, but nobody take cares about it.

[@ezzzraabarro9544]

Good thing new in the US dedicated a whole 35 seconds to this coming disaster for mankind. Oh well. More important issues like discussing Taylor Swift for 2 minutes along with the Kardashians' followed up by a dog being saved from a swimming pool. R.I.P. Humankind.

[@34st.wordfamily83]

Nowadays we don't even know if the telling the truth.🤔

[@TheEsseboy]

We do, they are.

[@teachmetheway928]

CHINA, INDIA, TO MANY PEOPLE USING TO MUCH STUFF ..

[@NONAME-kw3pu]

read somewhere that for all the US/EU does for THE ENVIRONMENT for the next 20 years... chindia negates in 6 months with their booooming populations all wanting a car/truck/scooter/power plants, NO POLLUTION CONTROLS on any of it. chindia brings new coal fired power plant online every week? NO pollution controlls

[@abody499]

too

[@nunofoo8620]

Biggest annual CO2 emitters are 1 China, 2 USA,3 India I would be surprised if it were Liechtenstein, San Marino and Malta. My question is: Why does the USA get a pass?

[@geraldmarfoe348]

​@@John-.-Smithand many Trinis still do not believe that carbon dioxide and methane trap heat in the atmosphere, causing climate change.

[@regend1509]

1 russian tank =1000liters of diesel per 100km thanks for coments

[@ronbelanger4113]

The planet is fine, the surface infestation however...

[@TheodoreAndor]

Nonsense!!!!! Its normal wait for the winter. Always this BS talk same with south pole.

[@marcinhibner9507]

It's earth and all natural its shifting are you having fun and your hot and bothered on social media, lol. 😂

[@maxeddw]

Thankfully CCPChina is doing their level best in leading the world in the fight against global warming. Thank you: that was my joke for today.