Swiss hold funeral for for lost Pizol glacier

Dozens of climate change activists said goodbye to the melting Pizol glacier in the Glarus Alps of northeastern Switzerland on Sunday. Scientists say the glacier has lost at least 80 percent of its volume just since 2006. They predict that due to global warming the glacier will disappear within ten years.

“It's like the death of a friend, (...) we can no longer protect the Pizol glacier,” said Matthias Huss, an expert on glaciers from the Federal University of Technology in Zurich, addressing those gathered at the glacier. He noted, however, that many of the negative effects of global warming can be stopped if people start acting. “Let's do everything in our power so that we can show our children and grandchildren a glacier in Switzerland in a hundred years,” he appealed.

(onet.pl)