[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Swiss glaciers melted 6% of the total this year, setting the highest melt rate on record more than a century ago.
According to Reuters, the UK reported on the 28th that due to severe melting of the glaciers, the wreckage of the plane crashed decades ago was re-expected. The rocks that have been covered with ice and snow for thousands of years have appeared, and some small glaciers have completely disappeared. Experts pointed out that the severe melting of glaciers in Switzerland this summer is related to the extremely low snowfall last winter and the high temperature and scorching summers in two consecutive summers. In the past, winter snowfall usually compensated for the melting of glaciers in summer, while the snow covered on the ground could reflect sunlight, thereby preventing glaciers from melting; today, the natural ecosystem of glaciers has been disrupted.
Data map
More than half of the glaciers in the Alps are concentrated in Switzerland, but the current temperature rise in Switzerland has reached twice the global average. Experts are shocked and worried about the rapid melting of Swiss glaciers. Some experts said that they knew that the Swiss glaciers would melt, but they did not expect to see the glaciers disappear so quickly now. Some studies believe that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, glaciers in the Alps will disappear by 2100 by more than 80%. Some analysts believe that under the trend of global warming , no matter what emission reduction measures are taken, many glaciers will disappear. (Wang Pinzhi)
Source: Global Times
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