Due to rising air temperatures by 2100, the glaciers of the Alps will lose more than 80% of their current mass.
Due to abnormally high temperatures, the Alps’ glaciers are on track for the largest mass loss in the past 60 years since they began to be observed. This was reported by Reuters.
After last winter, which brought relatively little snow, the Alps endured two early summer heatwaves, including one in July when temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius in the Swiss mountain village of Zermatt.
During the heat wave, the height at which the water freezes was measured at a record high of 5,184 meters – higher than Mont Blanc – compared to the usual summer level of 3,000-3,500 meters.
“This is clearly an extreme period,” the scientists said.
According to the agency, most of the world’s mountain glaciers are remnants of the last ice age. But glaciers in the European Alps are particularly vulnerable because they are smaller and have little ice cover.
At the same time, temperatures in the Alps are warming by about 0.3 degrees Celsius per decade – twice as fast as the global average.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, there will be negative consequences. By 2100, the glaciers of the Alps will lose more than 80% of their current mass.
Earlier it was reported that at least six people died as a result of the collapse of a glacier in the Italian Alps.
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Source: korrespondent
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