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Married couple from Bristol attract awe and abuse on X with photos that show ‘staggering’ changes in the Alps

Archived version: https://archive.ph/unmqx

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Somewhere, some right-wing nut is going to take these pictures and say they were faked by "some entity". Then it will be shared a million times to support their view that they are being lied to and climate change is a hoax.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Thing is, they already have their explanation: Alpine glacial recession was caused by mountain warfare in WW1, beacuse they blew literal hole in there. That destabilised it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what everyone is talking about, the after picture clearly shows more glacier!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. They also reversed aging.

[–] yogsototh 4 points 3 months ago

Don’t think so, they aged so well!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I went to Iceland last year, and our guide told us that the glacier we were about to hike was half a km (1600 feet) closer to the trail head 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Same story in norway. Just in my kids lifetime the glacier have recesses over five hundred meters. https://glacier.nve.no/Glacier/viewer/CI/en/nve/ClimateIndicatorInfo/2297?name=Nigardsbreen