Researchers Memorialize First Major Icelandic Glacier Lost To Climate Change

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At the site of the first major Icelandic glacier to disappear due to climate change, scientists are installing a memorial plaque as a message to future generations. (hereandnow)

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Scientists, academics and world leaders will soon gather in Iceland to memorialize the first major Icelandic glacier to disappear due to climate change.“It didn't have enough mass of snow and ice in order to be able to crawl along the ground which is required of a glacier to be able to move under its own weight,” saysNow, scientists are installing a memorial plaque on the barren ground as a message to future generations.

Howe says the plaque’s direct messaging was intentional. The team of researchers wanted to use the glacier’s passing as a call to climate action. “Well that's a good question because actually this will be the first time that the glaciologist who declared Ok glacier — Okjökull — to no longer be a glacier will be going up on top of the mountain to see if there is any glacial remnant ice remaining. His name is Oddur Sigurðsson and he was the scientist who found that Ok was no longer able to move under its own weight.

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Climate change is the biggest threat. If we can’t come together to resolve this global issue, nothing else will matter. We will all be in danger.

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And the glacier was so young!

I can never decide who I hate more: climate change deniers or anti-vaxxers. The science is irrefutable you morons. Climate change is real and it’s going to continue to devastate our world and pick off the ecosystems within it. Grow the fuck up and do your part to help stop this.

fun fact: There isn't a shred of proof for AGW

Fake news. We are entering a period of solar maximum for the next hundred to two hundred years, after which temperatures will decline again. Man-made global warming is absolute nonsense...for the 9 milllionth time.

There is much that we can learn from these backwards caveman-like people!

.npr Climate change? LMAO! Prove it. Glaciers have been receding for 1000's of years and are now expanding in many locations. GlobalWarmingCult

if losing a glacier is such a tragedy they should have protected it with electric fan’s or a sweat-away jacket like we do in summer

2 questions. 1)When did the ice start retreating? 2)When was the climate not changing?

Yay!! Tropical climate here we come!

Geez. You do know other glaciers melted too in the past? Now glaciers have spirits and need funerals? Liberal loonie tunies.

I’d like to send condolences. What was the glacier’s preferred gender pronoun?

Iceland is a very volcanic active island with warm springs, etc from the magma being so close to the surface in many areas. The warming of ground temps from magma is more responsible for glacier melt than your climate change. And no, we can't affect vol activity.

It would have done this anyway. Whoop whoop!

What are they doing to help the climate beyond grieving

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Climate change it might be, but never proven manmade, so man can't fix or alter the climate, it's the sun that drives the change. Not man, the science is bad, bought and paid for and in many cases produced under duress. Next year it's more ice and you won't come back and say it.

Makes me sick to my stomach. 😓🙏🏼

Did they ask for donations during the service? 🐷

So silly the glaciers have slowly been melting since the last ice age. Fear mongering

Well, it is not so bad that the ice is gone! At last, there will be a kind of warm weather coming to Iceland.Isn't that just nice?

LoveCat_Mickey Ok but tell me more about cow farts.

Lie lie lie! El Niño - Global Warming - Climate Change - Extreme Weather - 12 years left - What’s next? It’s not science. It’s a changing conspiracy! Indoctrination at the world level. Hoax StrangerThings 1619Project EpsteinSuicide

I guess nobody remembers 'Eighteen Hundred And Froze To Death'.

How much more proof do we need to see that Climate Change is real? Let’s act now!

If there are any future generations

RealTimers Yeah, but climate change is a Chinese hoax...right! I missed the photos and video of Chinese nationals up in the glacier with flamethrowers. Eyes wide shut conservatives will likely block this tweet, afterall, that's what most conservatives do when you question their myths.

Pure insanity from the loony left .. Do they hold funerals for ice cubes each day?

Glaciers have been melting since the end of the 'Little Ice Age'. The melt accelerates as the volume of ice decreases.

Glaciers didn't bide the snow just melted from the rocks there will be more snowfall this winter

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“First Ever Glacier Lost!” So Naive! In 4 billion years of Earth’s radically evolving ClimateChange, Earth Freezes & Warms. Both PolarCaps have melted entirely. Sea levels have risen from 165’ higher than today, to 400’ lower! CarbonBurn caused it? Really? MondayMotivation

So it hasn't melted, it just stopped moving

Total bullshit. What about China, India and Russia the world's worse polluters and are not even being penalized under the climate accord yet America, with some if the best ecological methods, was being made to bend over and really get screwed

This turns Republicans on.

There will be no future generations if we don’t start using alternative fuel sources. Climate deniers are an existential threat to all life on earth. We need to stand our ground against them.

We live in a small bubble.

DebbieDoesTwitt Assuming there are any future generations. I'm doubtful.

LMAO. A plaque for future generations? According to these people there won't be any future generations but yet they put a plaque up for them.😳

NPR is so full of it.. Climate change is a Hoax

A few years ago, even Pre-tRump, I had a dream that people in America were traveling to see a RARE ice formation off the eastern coast of Canada. Rare, because there was no longer any ice in the States. Thats all I recall, of it. My dream didn't involve the poles.

So let me ask you, what is the natural increase to the energy of a body in space? What you think the physical processes stopped after Gaia created man to worship her w/ CO2 offerings and save plant life? LOL Climate Cultism is just another doomsday or I hate humans' cult.

And enter in the “It’s fake” or “hoax” in regards to climate change. Given people around the World especially those living in Europe have seen the climate change first hand. More rain, less snow in Germany, mosquitoes being a issue because too humid & hot. Thats just one.

Thankfully we have someone running for office who understands ClimateChange . And when BidenHarris2020 take over, we can get back on the right track that shit for brains Trump took us off of.

This has worked so well in the past.

I’m pretty sure glaciers melted a bit when a GIANT FREAKING METEOR hit the planet and killed the dinosaurs along with 99% of life on earth. And with other variations in 5 Billion years of earth. But keep up your manmade climatechangehoax

OK melted due to geothermal activity underneath the glacier. Geothermal caused from the Volcano on which Glacier formed. Not Climate Change but Earth Change!

What BS

Lol I have a feeling throughout history this isnt the first. Fake news

That’s cute. Within 5 years, that plaque will probably be under 1000 feet of ice. And who verified that it was the first glacier in Iceland to ever disappear? Also, why was there no mention by of the increases in ice and glacier thickness elsewhere?

Pretty sure many glaciers have “died” due to climate change since the world has been created. But you are brave to proclaim this the “first”

It should have said- thanks MoscowMitch & Republicans putting corporate profits over the planet

MissDiagnosis Official ending of the Ice Age. Now the next Age can begin. Climate change is real, not a damn thing humans can do about it. Precession will happen with or without humans. The Earth’s cycle will continue with or without us

ceci_wallace The Mars effect has begun.

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MissDiagnosis When it goes under again will it be eventually rediscovered in the future like the monument in 2001 Space Odyssey?

Scientists have recently determined that the methane gas released during the (male) gay sex act is the primary cause of climate change.

See realDonaldTrump climate change is real! Stop pretending and help stop climate change!

I’m no longer convinced that asteroids killed the dinosaurs. Somehow... someway... it had to be humans. Humans kill everything. RIPOkjökull This won’t be the last.

Also remember the scientist were putting out this information Rob bought and manipulated by delegates of the Democratic Party who aim towards an ecumenical movement of morals and values to strengthen the stranglehold on the world

Furthermore theorist has an internal insulation which is the north and south poles so those who banked on living on the shores are hating life compared to those who build their houses inland

Climate change is just another agenda move by the delegates of the Democratic Party in order to move towards an economic future that involves only a few countries that have a stranglehold on new technology with environmental safety as their emotional appeal

Hollywood predictions batting .1000 DOOM

95% of Climate Scientists who receive millions of dollars in government funding agree in order to keep their funding they must convince you Climate Change is real.

It will be seen as long as future generations don't have to swim underwater to view the plaque...

It says, “we know what needs to be done.” What exactly is that? It doesn’t seem like anyone is doing “it” whatever “it” is.

People in Iceland are mourning the death of one of their famous glaciers due to the actions of people in other parts of the globe accelerating climate change. They put up a plaque accepting this responsibility, which is noble and selfless of the Country Iceland

Do NOT fall for this scam.These people who are causing'climate change'alarm only wish for one thing: Total & complete control over everyone.The GND would harm& destroy us FAR more than than this ridiculous hoax will. Please wake UP. They are lying to you!

Climate Change is nothing more than a ploy to extract wealth from the United States to subsidize a broke Socialist Europe and fund the leftist agenda of establishing a one world Communist government.

I assume they’ll b throwing a party for the glaciers that have increased in size? Also, notice it’s not man made climate change.

Well climate change is more natural than anything...no reason to hold a funeral for it lol.

What about all the Whales slaughtered by these c***s

Bold of you to assume there's going to be a future generation

Only fools believe in Man Caused Climate Change, and only money and power hungry socialists organize to spread the lie.

GlacierFuneralIceland LostToClimateChange thesummeroflovewithmarknew Iceland just held a funeral for its first ever loss of a glacier due to climate change. Time to look at carbon emissions and corporate pollution, so the polluters pay to repair the damage to the ecosystem

future generations? nah, if we're lucky, we'll all die out soon due to some giant war over the last spot of oil since according to the same people who deny climate change, 'how does solar work if the sun goes away each day?' then put on their maga hat and go hunt immigrants.

Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a TEMPERATE climate, despite a high latitude almost entirely outside the Arctic Circle.

Thank God it's gone.

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I'm sitting sitting in a valley carved out by glaciers and flooding caused by melting glaciers thousands of years ago. Who can we blame?

What future generations?

Coincidentally, Fox and Franz Josef are celebrating the birth of their new baby Glacier four hours South of Queenstown, NZ.

I wonder what the carbon footprint of casting the metal plaque was? Also, a guy with a drill & some screws, could have installed the plaque. It didn't need scientists. They have better things to do, I'm sure!

If we dont do anything more glacier will be 'dead' soon! Safe theWorld

hmmm, I wonder what caused the glaciers to melt thousands of years ago... vehicle exhaust?

Wow

We can’t address climate change with the climate science-denying GOP controlling the Senate and the White House.

pdacosta The beginning of many RIP “Glaciers”... WALLE (WALL-E, The Movie) :(

pdacosta Give us your thoughts, John. JohnCornyn

Like, what “future generations” This is the climate apocalypse. Welcome to the end.

MiaFarrow :(

SamChampion Sad

“future generations”

MiaFarrow bahler_david davematt88 MaryKeithBare1 Katnfl kathies01 GolfSoBad DwaneKSmith maddow LynneLy60576081 Maybe Trump will buy Iceland too & finish destroying it... Nothing he likes more!!! Trump is VERY INTERESTED in purchasing NEW ZEALAND!!! Is it on the block?

Like they will be able to read after the water wars lol

robynstevensPR Chile’s glaciers may have a BiggerProblem than ClimateChange

If there are future generations

God

What’s wrong with living smarter? Why do people think there is a sinister plot behind this? Is it because they don’t want to be proven wrong? Is it because it makes them feel bad that they don’t have a moral bone in their body?

Like the moon landing. Now we place them strategically in extinct locations of distinction so others can learn from our mistakes. This assumes there will be others.. We can be the change needed to prevent another plaque. We are the last line of defense against GlobalWarming

I hope that useless gesture gave them comfort.🙄

BiddyCranky How many more generations are they anticipating? 🤔

I am so sorry.

We should all be ANGRY about this administration’s foolishly denying the climate change.

Do you see this MR POTUS. This is science! This ice was on land & now in the sea. This makes the sea rise & flood the land = more sea less land. It’s caused by GLOBAL WARMING. Do you get that? Is that why you want to buy Greenland. Somewhere to go when all ice melts? Idiot

suzuhiggins If only the greatest denier of climate change could read. realDonaldTrump

we are effed.

Climate change is the biggest fraud of our decade.

OMG!!!

I just consider it melted.

“Save The Glaciers!” 🤔 I happen to live in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York. Beautiful area carved out what I believe is the Laurentide Ice Sheet. That glacier is just about gone now. And we are all better off.

Ice__Blue It won't be the last.

Tragic. The memorial statement is spot on.

MiaFarrow I can’t believe how many anthropogenic climate change deniers there are in these responses. You people are immoral.

“Only peace can save the world and only love can create a livable earth!”― Mehmet Murat ildan

hoax

Had people starting using their bronze for such plaques during the Bronze Age they’d be commonplace. Of course, until the very recent development of a thriving (and CO2 producing) economy, people had much greater concerns and they wouldn’t have wasted the resources.

😂😂If past climactic changes throughout the Earth's 4.8 BILLION year history are any indication, that memorial will be buried in ice eventually🤔 Iceland ClimateHoax

Oh no....another outdoor ice cube melted.....I bet nobody ever expected that.

Hmmm...then why isnt Manhattan under water now?

There used to be a glacier in upstate NY, where can I see the plaque for that?

Thoughts and prayers ...

This is completely insane, yet adorable lol.

Memorial plaques dedicated to victims of violence in American and now memorial plaques dedicated to “dead” glaciers... I do not like either of these growing trends.

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Stop slaughtering the English language!! You look so stupid. Climate change occurs when you travel from Iceland to the equator. Stop sounding so dumb. Refer to the scientific theory of AGW.

Is it written in cockroachian?

climate change which started 10,000 years ago, btw...

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It'll be under a mile of ice one day

So sad! We must DO SOMETHING! STATES UNITE! StatesUniteForClimateChangeSolutions!

Future generations of what.

hereandnow We’re going to need more plaques...

hereandnow My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay. Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

hereandnow Read this earlier😔. Okglacier

hereandnow Did they recycle the signs they took down at Glacier National Park saying they'd all be gone in 2020?

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hereandnow What language will that plaque be in?🤔

hereandnow What future generations?

hereandnow How very sad.

hereandnow A letter to the future.

hereandnow This is truly sad! It's the mark of the beginning of Humanity's end. . GretaThunberg lillyspickup RepAOC JayInslee UNFCCC JoeBiden ENERGY SenKamalaHarris POTUS Scholar_Atheist TomSteyer BernieSanders thedavidcrosby RoArquette robperillo NobelPrize BetoORourke

hereandnow Iceland displays water samples from its remaining glaciers - and at least one former glacier - in its museum of water

hereandnow Does it just say 'We're sorry' ?

hereandnow Cool; we're starting to put up our collective gravestones.

hereandnow

NarroVictor hereandnow Assuming there are future generations...

hereandnow A pile of rocks is all these 'experts' could muster.

hereandnow NPR still exists?

hereandnow “Future generations”

hereandnow Will it be like Glacier National Park signs and be changed as the glaciers recover naturally?

hereandnow China is building 300 coal power plants over the next decade and continues to accelerate their CO2 emissions, see chart. They emit more than USA and Europe combined. Where's the outcry from the Believers?

hereandnow Could the 'memorial' be words of wisdom/warnings for future generations as well?

hereandnow

hereandnow Sounds like bullshit.

hereandnow 👿

AngelaKrebs444 hereandnow *If* there are any future generations!

hereandnow Earth will cool again. Have no fear.

hereandnow Now we know the politics of the 'researchers'.

hereandnow 😔

hereandnow When it ends up buried under ice in 10 years, nobody will remember it...but you’ll still be screaming

hereandnow hoax

hereandnow Dear future generations, Climate change has been happening since the beginning of time and will continue until the end of time. Glaciers come and go. Deserts come and go. Species come and go. Mother Nature always survives. Love, All Rational Human Beings

hereandnow

hereandnow 😢

hereandnow There aren't going to BE any future generations. But perhaps this memorial can be a message to extraterrestrial visitors.

hereandnow 😢

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