Climate change sceptics can deny things all they want, but there are some implications that are too real to be ignored.?
Take the?world-famous ice hotel which is erected every year on the shores of Balea Lake in Romania's Sibiu County, for instance. This year it's not going to be built because we have literally run out of ice thanks to climate change that has wreaked havoc across the globe.?
According to local media, the hotel, which is normally constructed at an altitude of 2,000 metres (6,561ft) can¡¯t be built this year because there isn¡¯t enough ice in the Balea lake, despite an already advance booking by customers for a ¡®Frozen¡¯ experience.?
The hotel has been popular for more than 16 years and this news has shocked tourists and also given many a reality check on the effects of climate change.
?¡°This year we won¡¯t be able to build the ice hotel because of the lack of ice. On Tuesday, January 7, temperatures of -17C were registered and the thickness of the snow was 166 cm (5.44 feet) so it seems that even if we built the ice hotel it still wouldn¡¯t be as cost-effective as the last couple of years," hotel representative Alexander Uncheshel was quoted by Unilad.
During the construction process, workers cut large blocks of ice from the Balea lake with chainsaws. But this year, the blocks of ice were nowhere to be seen, all because of an unusually warm winter.?
According to the Met Office, 2020 will likely be 1.11C warmer than the average between 1850-1900,"The forecast for 2020 would place next year amongst the six warmest years on record, which would all have occurred since 2015," said Dr Doug Smith, a Met Office research fellow.
The tourists who have booked apartments in the hotel will now have to wait until next winter and hope that the ice won't completely disappear.?