Glaciers in Switzerland the home to the most in the Alps lost 5.5 per cent of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest percentage drop on record due to heat waves and low winter snowfall, experts report.
“Alpine glaciers have no chance of surviving in the long term under such conditions,” the GLAMOS Swiss glacier monitoring service and Swiss Academy of Sciences said in a statement released Thursday.
The trend has worsened in recent years: Over the past five years alone, the volume of ice in Switzerland has declined by nearly a fifth, the experts say.
The report testifies to the latest concerns that global warming is wreaking havoc on Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent.
“The warming that we are experiencing now can be attributed 100 per cent to anthropogenic climate change. It’s as simple as that,” said Matthias Huss, who heads GLAMOS. “Without human emissions or fossil fuels, we wouldn’t have any warming at the moment.”
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