Italy: To Save Glacier From Melting In Summer Heat, Climate Experts Cover Parts Of It With Strips Of Cloth
To save northern Italy's Presena glacier from further shrinking, climate experts are covering it with long strips of cloth which will reflect the sun's rays and prevent the snow beneath from melting.
Climate change is real and if people are still having a hard time understanding this then this piece of news about what's happening to a glacier will sadden and shock you.
Climate experts are now covering northern Italy's Presena glacier with long strips of cloth which will reflect the sun's rays and prevent the snow beneath from melting. This procedure is being done to stop the glacier from further shrinking, reports News18.
WATCH: Battling to save northern Italy's Presena glacier from further shrinking, climate experts are covering it with long strips of cloth which will reflect the sun's rays and prevent the snow beneath from melting https://t.co/4YHYCgTj8k pic.twitter.com/aynQIPExOc
¡ª Reuters (@Reuters) July 10, 2021
About 70% of the snow can be saved over the summer with the protective covering which works in the same way as a silver reflective guard placed in a car window to stop overheating.
A team unfurled 5-metre-wide and 70-metre-long strips to cover some 120,000 square metres of the glacier which is surrounded by stunning wide peaks.
Reuters
Glaciologist Christian Casarotto of Trento science museum told Reuters, "Glaciers and their retreat are perhaps the most striking manifestation of ongoing global warming. Studying glaciers therefore becomes important in order to understand the direction in which we are heading and to be able to correct it."
People on social media are furious that we have come to this point.
This is pathetic.
¡ª Bonnie carol case (@Bonniecarolcas1) July 10, 2021
Stop messing with nature
¡ª Ruth Dale (@ChippyRuth) July 10, 2021
I hate that we've come to this point. We need to take better care of our planet....
¡ª Blazewing - Fully Vaccinated (@Blazewing2010) July 10, 2021
I see roofers, not climate experts.
¡ª Georg Chytil?s Emp?rium (@gechytil) July 10, 2021
Climate experts could tell this was just buying time, at the wrong front.
What happens when all that heat is reflected back up into the Atmosphere?
¡ª Tez (@Tez11288903) July 10, 2021
all that money flowing into climate change and this is what they could come up?
¡ª Ammad's Advice (@Ammads2020) July 10, 2021
Glacier mass had been falling continuously for the last 15 to 20 years and this process has been carried out since 2008.
Thwaites and the Pine Island Glacier are the two biggest glaciers in Antarctica that have become the fastest melting glaciers in the world.
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