New photos vs old: comparisons show dramatic Swiss glacier retreat

THE FURKA PASS, Switzerland - On the hairpin bend of a Swiss mountain pass, a Victorian-era hotel built for tourists to admire the Rhone Glacier has been abandoned now that the ice has retreated nearly 2 km uphill.

A Reuters montage of images - showing photos of modern-day mountain landscapes next to archive shots of the same scenes decades earlier - reveals the dramatic change. The Belvedere Hotel, built in the 1880s during a surge in Alpine tourists, was an early victim of the decline. Once the scene of wild parties, it features in a James Bond car chase in “Goldfinger”.

In another archive photograph taken in the late 19th century in front of the Aletsch glacier - the largest in the Alps - a man sits on a boulder in front of a huge ice channel that merges with the main ice stream below. Today, they no longer join.

Vlkantun_vule No quedó nada.

Advance and retreat of the Alpine glaciers during the last glacial cycle

but more greenery

The old picture is in winter time and there are no trees. Who do you think you're trying to fool?

During the last ice age some parts of the United States were under about two miles of ice. It started melting way before the industrial revolution! And it continued melting for thousands of years. It melted faster than today.

Much more green and contributing to oxygen creation. Change is an opportunity!

That's what glacier's do over 100 thousands of years. Humankind are short time thinkers and believe that everything happens in their lifetime and all else is irrelevant. Humankind is just a small part of the planets history. We are short-time nomad dwellers here on earth.

its great actually! trees absorb CO2 and produce oxygen. arent trees a good thing?

冰川退缩了，绿色更多了，不好吗？ 挺好！

Glaciers are never static.

Meanwhile, in Greenland...

This is what happens when the planet recovers from an ice age. The next ice age will fill the valley with ice once again. 👍

AsTheWorldBurns

Advance and retreat of the Alpine glaciers during the last glacial cycle

Good for them hopefully they’ll get to enjoy the warmer weather soon

Looks greener, means more life

Even older photos show dramatic propaganda going on.

It retreats and then it comes back again......

Indeed impressive

And? Temperatures in Britain remain as they have for centuries. Good.

Green size ölsün ,Grii Resim RA ,bu çaba nız için

Soon it will change!

Stop misinforming

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