Austrian glacier named Basters River / GETTY IMAGES
According to the National Meteorological Institute, Pasterse, Austria’s biggest glacier, melted “two to four times” quicker in 2022 than it did on average over the previous few years because of global warming.
Climate monitor chief Marion Grelinger said in a statement on Thursday that early findings from the fall measurements indicate that we are in for an extreme year.
“The ice’s thickness has fallen by three.”
7 metres even at the top, at a height of more than 3,000 metres,” she continued, as opposed to 1. 6 metres earlier.
The Alps experienced a record-breaking amount of snowfall in the spring, and the situation was made worse by sand waves from the Sahara.
Thus, at the beginning of summer in Austria, the snow absorbed more heat, hastening its melting and robbing glaciers of their protective coating. Then a series of heat waves were applied to the ice.
According to the National Meteorological Institute, the rapid melting will cause the lower portion of Basseterre, Austria, which spans ten kilometres and is a component of the Hohe Tauern (south) block in the Eastern Alps, to vanish.
This summer, the same phenomena was seen throughout the Alpine region, which has 4,000 glaciers out of the 220,000 found worldwide.
Early in July, the Marmolada glacier in Italy saw a major fall that killed eleven people and highlighted the gravity of the problem.
Germany declared the loss of a glacier on Monday, while a report released on Wednesday showed that this year, Swiss glaciers have melted at a record rate.
Experts relate this occurrence to global warming, which also causes drought, land instability, and sea level rise.
Austria’s greatest glacier has melted at a record rate this year.
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