Thread
:
Iceland Holds Funeral For Melting Glacier
View Single Post
19-08-19, 11:04
#
1
Ladybbird
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 50,505
Thanks: 28,767
Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts
Awards Showcase
Total Awards
: 8
Iceland Holds Funeral For Melting Glacier
Iceland Holds Funeral for First Glacier Lost to Climate Change
Nation commemorates the once huge Okjokull glacier with plaque that warns action is needed to prevent climate change
The Guardian UK, 19 Aug 2019.
Iceland has marked its first-ever loss of a glacier to climate change as scientists warn that hundreds of other ice sheets on the subarctic island risk the same fate.
As the world recently marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock in a ceremony on the barren terrain once covered by the Okjokull glacier in western Iceland.
The glaciers of Iceland seemed eternal. Now a country mourns their loss > Andri Snær Magnason
The ice melted away after being frozen for 700 years. A bronze plaque unveiled at the site warns that over the next 200 years, all of Iceland's glaciers will meet the same fate.
Around 100 people walked up the mountain for the ceremony, including Iceland’s prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, former UN human rights commissioner, Mary Robinson, and local reseachers and colleagues from the United States from who pioneered the commemoration project.
__________________
6000
PLUS
Cases-
He's LOST ALL
Heard
So Far
: TRUMPs Onslaught of Lawyers are 'Hitting a Wall' -Judges & Cases Lining Up Against TRUMP
France To Ask For Statue of Liberty Back -No Longer Fits 'Freedom' Under TRUMP
.. AND Starmers REVOLTING Betrayal of Britain Will NEVER Be Forgiven
TRUMPs' REVENGE -Clear & Present Danger -People Who Worship at The Altar of Trump Will KNEEL,
NOT STAND
Up to Him
PLEASE
Click
DONATE
& Thanks to
ALL
Members of ...
1
..
Ladybbird
View Public Profile
Find More Posts by Ladybbird