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  • On a loosely related note, I spent a week climbing in the Austrian Alps in June. I was nearly brought to tears to see a glacier that I have known for 15 years had reduced by 30m in length since the last time I crossed it two years ago.

    15m per year is desperately sad. It'll be gone in our lifetimes.

    And that is after one of the longest and snowiest winters in living memory.

  • Switzerland’s glaciers have been melting at an unprecedented rate, losing almost one cubic km in ice volume or about 900 bn litres of water over the past year.

    900 bn litres of water.
    the past year.
    ffs

  • I found an unopened can of coke from the 1992 Olympics in a glacier in June. Beats a corpse in my opinion.

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