lie in ataraxis Pizol glacier , proud resident of the Swiss Alps , who recently pass away at a very old age after a short fight with catastrophic climate change .
A funeralwas keep back on Sunday , September 22 to immortalise the loss of the Pizol glacier in the Glarus Alps of easterly Switzerland after it recently disappeared as a result of rise temperatures .
Some 250 local and environmental nominee donned hiking boots and black clothes to take part in a 5 - klick ( 3 - Admiralty mile ) hike up the mountain . After reaching where the glacier once place , they listened to " eulogies " from glaciologists and a local pastor alongside traditional alpine horn music .
“ Pizol glacier has disappear . There will be some snowfall left , but the glacier is no more,“Matthias Huss , a glacier specialiser at ETH Zurich university toldCNN . " give what is left of it , we will no longer term it a glacier in scientific price . "
Pizol glacier lost nearly 90 percentage of its documented airfoil from when disc began in the 19th C , much of which occurred in the past dyad of years alone . Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland ( GLAMOS ) , the country ’s glacier monitoring overhaul , said the Swiss glaciers were especially hard off by the scorch European heatwaves this summertime , reportsE&E News .
The defective is yet to number , too . Switzerland is presently home to some 1,500 glacier , however , a studyfrom Apil 2019 discover that the Alps would be mostly chicken feed - liberal by 2100 , perhaps even undergoing a 50 pct loss of glacier intensity from 2017 to 2050 .
" Glaciers in the European Alps and their recent phylogenesis are some of the clearest indicators of the ongoing changes in climate , " said confidential information author of the bailiwick , Professor Daniel Farinotti of ETH Zurich . " The future of these glaciers is indeed at risk , but there is still a possibility to confine their succeeding loss . "
Iceland recentlyheld a alike ceremonyfor a perished glacier Okjökull in Borgarfjörður . Okjökull was the first glacier in Iceland to lose its title of respect because of worldwide thaw back in 2014 , but it was formerly con with a memorial tablet installed this summer by scientists from Rice University in Texas .
Make no mistake , all of this is a symptom of man - driven climate change . As greenhouse gasses go on to be carelessly pumped into Earth ’s air , our satellite will retain increasingly more heat , resulting in a rise in orbicular temperature . Most part of the humans will take a hit – indeed , many already are – but the shock is anticipated to affect thecoldest parts of our planetmost sharply .
