According to the Associated Press, heatwaves and little winter precipitation caused glaciers in Switzerland to lose 5.5 percent of their ice volume this year, the second-largest percentage decrease ever recorded. The GLAMOS Swiss glacier monitoring agency and the Swiss Academy of Sciences issued a statement on Thursday warning that Alpine glaciers have little chance of survival in the long run under such conditions.
Experts say glacier melt has increased in recent years, with the volume of ice in Switzerland falling by over a fifth in the last five years alone. The reduction coincides with mounting concerns about the impact of rising temperatures in Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent.
Matthias Huss, the head of GLAMOS, stated that the current warming is totally due to human-caused climate change, and that there would be no warming without human emissions or fossil fuels.
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