A lack of snowfall and repeated heatwaves are eating away at glaciers across the world, with Europe's Alps on course to follow the Tropics in losing all of its glaciers
For nearly 12,000 years, the rivers of ice that cling to mountains from Alaska to New Zealand have stood as reminders of an era when vast swathes of the planet were encased in frozen water.
Last year was a record for ice loss in Switzerland, with a lack of snowfall in winter to provide insulation for the ice andcausing Swiss glaciers to lose six per cent of their mass or around three cubic kilometres of ice. “In the short, medium-term future nothing can be changed, but we have the option to change the long-term future. In the scenario with no CO2 reduction, all ice would disappear by the end of the century.Since 1850, the last peak in ice mass, the Alps have lost two-thirds of their ice already.
For a glimpse of the future, says Dr Huss, Europeans need only look to the Pyrenees, which top out at 3,404 metres. “They used to be glaciarised… but nowadays the region is almost ice free. What’s left is on the way to extinction.”
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