“funeral march” up a steep Swiss mountainside on Sunday to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change.The Pizol “has lost so much substance that from a scientific perspective it is no longer a glacier,” Alessandra Degiacomi, of the Swiss Association for Climate Protection, told AFP.
Once they arrive, a chaplain and several scientists will give somber speeches in remembrance of the glacier, accompanied by the mournful tones of alphorns — a 3.6-meter , pipe-shaped wooden instrument. “Since 1850, we estimate that more than 500 Swiss glaciers have completely disappeared, including 50 that were named,” Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the ETH technical university in Zurich, told AFP.
Pizol has lost 80-90 percent of its volume just since 2006, leaving behind a mere 26,000 square meters of ice, or “less than four football fields,” Huss said.According to Glacier Monitoring Switzerland, or GLAMOS, it, like nearly 80 percent of Swiss glaciers, has been considered a so-called glacieret.It has figured among some 4,000 glaciers — vast, ancient reserves of ice — dotted throughout the Alps, providing seasonal water to millions and forming some of Europe’s most stunning landscapes.
And in a subsequent study published earlier this month, the researchers indicated that the Alps’ largest glacier, the mighty Aletsch, could completely disappear over the next eight decades.
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