Due to global warming, the glaciers in the Alps are melting faster and faster. There should be no more glaciers in the Alps below 3,500 meters by the end of this century at the latest, said Bremen glaciology professor Olaf Eisen. However, especially after last year’s hot summer, he assumes that this process will be much faster, he told the German news agency.
While the glaciers used to retreat continuously, now – after extreme years like 2022 – gaps are appearing in the glacier tongues.
The Ötztal is an area in Tyrol that is popular with mountaineers.
Iron gives the Alpine glaciers at an altitude of 4,000 or 4,500 meters another 100 years or so before they are probably largely gone. The melting of the glaciers is currently unstoppable, but it can be mitigated, according to an expert from the Alfred Wegener Institute of the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research.
Loss of up to 90 percent is imminent
Even if the current CO₂ content of the atmosphere remained stable – which it does not – this would mean a 50 percent loss of mass for glaciers around the world by the year 2100. But if CO₂ emissions remain at current levels, there is a risk of a loss of 80 to 90 percent. If it were possible to reduce CO₂ emissions to zero, Eisen believes the retreat of the glaciers could be reduced.
If it were at all possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere in the long term, the glaciers could grow again.
Therefore, the professor of glaciology clearly says:
(saw/sda/dpa)
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