All this has not yet been lost: How to save the biggest glacier from the Alps?
A great glacier of ALETSHIn Swiss Alps, 20 km long and Will be more weight Of 10 billion tonnes. Annually, attracts one million dE. Tourists. But now the risk of disappearing. Scientists point out what the only way to prevent this from happening.
Scientists believe that the largest glacier in the Alps is still saving. However, for this, the planet does not overheat more than two degrees Celsius.
Anxiety Athtsh’s great glaciers, in Swiss Alps. One Ice mass is 20 km long and weighs another 10 billion tons.Oo glacier Each year, attracts more than one million tourists.
Investigate from Academy of Sciences Was pointed out that, If the global warming does nothing to stop, the glacier disappears. However, if it is possible to make it slowly The planet temperature does not rise more than two degreesOh Glacier can survive. So it will also be “Threatening sea level” threatening.
“Almost all glaciers are likely to disappear and we can hope that we can preserve any of the ice of Alatsh glacier,” Swiss glaciers director Mathias Huss said in advertising.
Switzerland has already lost 40% of glaciers
Swiss scientists also agree to this second scenario, despite everything, Great damage of snow becomes inevitable. Although saved, the glacier is small and thin.
AS Switzerland temperatures are twice as high as global averageDue to climate change. The Since 2000 the size of glaciers in the country has been reduced by almost 40% – 10% of which in just two years (Between 2022 and 2023), experts University of Frybergo.
However, the trend is global. YouThe glaciers are disappearing, all the planet, at a speed that has never seen beforeOver the past three years, there was great damage of glaciersAccording to The United Nations.
