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"Frozen in time: Old paintings and new photographs reveal some NZ #glaciers may soon be extinct"
#globaleErwärmung #Erderwärmung

Frozen in time: Old paintings and new photographs reveal some NZ glaciers may soon be extinct
As the austral summer draws to a close, we are preparing to fly over the Southern Alps to survey glaciers. This annual flight supports the longest scientific study of Aotearoa New Zealand's icescapes—and it shows that all of our glaciers have retreated since 1978.

Warmer oceans might cause #glaciers to break apart more quickly.
A 6.5-mile #crack formed in 2012 on Pine Island Glacier— a retreating ice shelf that holds back the larger West Antarctic ice sheet — in about 5 and a half minutes.
The rift opened at about 115 feet per second, or about💥 80 miles per hour.💥

The 80 MPH Glacier Fracture: A Wake-Up Call From Antarctica
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest unknown in the future of rising seas, partly because glacier fracture physics is not yet fully understoo

"What's behind the 'unstoppable' disappearance of Austria's glaciers?"
#Austria #Glaciers #Climate

Austria's glaciers will be gone in 45 years, report warns
The report details the rapid shrinking of 93 glaciers in Austria in the last couple of years.

Another report of accelerated melting of #glaciers in #Greenland. The Alfred Wegener Institute has been studying the loss for many decades, and the combination of much warmer air temperatures and ocean water under the floating glacier tongue, eventually resulting in it breaking off. Full paper link i…

"What's behind the 'unstoppable' disappearance of Austria's glaciers?"
#Austria #Glaciers #Climate

Austria's glaciers will be gone in 45 years, report warns
The report details the rapid shrinking of 93 glaciers in Austria in the last couple of years.

"Africa’s Tropical Glaciers Have Shrunk by 90 Percent, Study Finds"
#Africa #Glaciers #Ice #Study

On the other hand, the area in Northern #Greenland I'm visiting for #Fieldwork from Saturday is also looking pretty god damn beautiful right now too..
#EarthArt #Sentinel2 #SatPic #ice #Glaciers #Climate #Science