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Post by auntieannie on Aug 28, 2019 21:53:29 GMT 2
I am so very shocked!
It is a thing to intellectually know something and another to actually witness it with your own eyes.
I saw two glaciers today, at the first one, it was less easy to realise the thinning of the icesheet, but for the other, I saw it much much longer as a child it has receded so very much, it was painful to watch. We're fucked.
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 6, 2019 22:51:56 GMT 2
Oddly, the decline in Alpine glaziers dates back to mid 19th Century.
There is a glacier in Austria that I visited in the 1960s, it had just been opened up by funicular railway to its tip. It is reported that nowadays it is a long walk from the bottom of the railway to the glacier.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 6, 2019 23:09:39 GMT 2
It is depressing. I am not a climate change denier. Nor do I doubt that human activity contributes to it. But at one time I lived in Hertfordshire not far from St Albans. That was the furthest south the glaciers of the last ice age reached.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 9, 2019 20:38:11 GMT 2
Yes, the glaciers have been receding for a while, but what frightens me is the speed with which they recede now. Also, the glacier that really broke my heart is the rhone glacier. The river that goes to Marseille area. and there is not much glacier left. This river has defined the region I grew up in.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 10, 2019 8:44:38 GMT 2
Annie, you need a different avatar. Is/was it a Tinypic one?
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 10, 2019 20:15:57 GMT 2
no, it was still from photobucket, they didn't bother me until recently.
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