People walk towards Okjokull glacier in Iceland for a ceremony on August 18, 2019. Okjokull glacier, which will be the first of the countryÕs hundreds of glaciers to be lost due to climate change, will be remembered with a memorial plaque. REUTERS/Geirix
Scientists see the shrinking of glaciers as one of many warning signs that the earth’s climate is lurching toward dangerous tipping points. “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” said the inscription on the plaque written by Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason.
According to satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory, the glacier appeared as a solid-white patch in 1986, but in an image from Aug. 1 this year, only small dashes of white ice remained.
Maybe it has something to do with the world being on the tail end of an Ice Age
Glacier: 'I'll be back.'
Climate change? Don’t let Trump hear that
Climate cultists.
Please choose the year with the correct temperature
Actually, Iceland glaciers tend to melt when it is summer in the Northern hemisphere. That's it! Global warming my Aunt Fannie!
This is insane.
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ALL THINGS MUST PASS!!!
Brilliant! Will they be going back in January when it’s buried under 20ft of snow and ice?
Looking forward to seeing this plaque buried in 30 feet of ice this winter.
Let's make a plaque for Pangea.
350 Will they do the same for all the whales they will murder in Iceland this year? whalemurderingnation
USA buys the place trump will build a new glacier ... Haha
Urgences
Nothing to do with it sitting on a volcano?
RIP it is very sad!
Lmfao. This has to be satire.
The height of geological ignorance.
This is how human greed has destroyed nature... People are amassing wealth at the expense of our ecosystem... Climate change is real...
The burning of bunker fuel in cargo ships has done this. Check the black particuls in the ice. Do the math on emmisions of bunker fuel and report it. It is your duty to report the truth
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