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    Das Matterhorn erlebte Wasserfälle von oben, während sich der thermische Nullpunkt über seinen Gipfel auf 4478 m bewegte

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    1. Czar1987 on

      but everything’s fine! those extinction rebellion nuts are terrorist radicals! :/

    2. MercatorLondon on

      we are cooked

      That is your reliable and steady water supply over the summer months gone.

    3. b00c on

      Sooo is this a yearly occurence and this year is a bit early? Or is this a bit unprecendented? 

      Any redditors living near or on Matternhorn? 

    5. Massive-Morning2160 on

      Every year there is a layer of snow accumulating on the swiss glaciers. It usually all melts half way August. This year it melted already. More than a month earlier.
      I’ve been to a few glaciers and it’s really crazy to see how fast they melt, considering that ice was permanent. It’s really sad and also scary to think at how to world will look in 20/30 years… apocalyptic

    6. Velokieken on

      One of the most beautiful mountains, never seen it like this. It looks better in white.

    9. gabebps on

      but on the bright side, my amazon deliveries now can be done on the same day

      /s

    10. borgi27 on

      We should nuke everything outside mainland europe, but like gently somehow, so we don’t go into a nuclear ice age.. Japan can stay, they are cool

      Obvious /s for the slower crowd

    12. Luck88 on

      When I was in elementary school, they taught us that the 3000m height was the „line of perennial snow“ aka the height above which snow can be found all year long without it melting. It’s now melting.

    13. g_spaitz on

      A few actual facts though.

      This is a picture of heavy rain during a thunderstorm, you can see water coming down also from parts where there’s no ice, unless you think heat also melts rocks. Anybody who lived in the Alps has seen this. Also, Cervino being very steep, is not a place of glaciers, it’s mostly rock. Lastly the main reason the glaciers are retreating in the Alps is not the heat in the summer, it’s the severe lack of snowfall in the winter, that is, a radical change in how the winter goes, both in the window snowfalls happen and in the quantity of bad weather systems that arrive on the Alps.

      Of course summer heat will melt glaciers faster and is part of the problem, but it’s the smaller part. If it does not snow, there are no glaciers to melt.

      I’m hugely concerned, and always have been, for climate change. But this picture with glaciers melting caption is bullshit information.

    14. lexonid on

      For context, this happened because there was a heavy shower right before, so it took the last bit of snow. Usually the snow vanishes less visibly, that there is a huge waterfall like this is definitely unusual. That the mountain is completely black in Summer is no exception though, it’s a regular occurrence in most years. This is not the Permafrost melting, this mainly happens by the end of July/August again.

    16. Letsgoski_Broski on

      Thermal 0° two days after the picture was taken sat at 5.238m. Higher than any mountain in the alps, higher than the tallest mountain in the alps (4.807,3m).
      I have never seen the Cervino with waterfalls. I don’t want to say it but it has to be done: we are so fucked.

    18. Electrical-Bee-7362 on

      Also, Matterhorn’s rock is famously rotten. When the mountain loses the ice that keeps it together, sections of it will slowly collapse. 

      The prince of the alps will change its face in the coming decades… 

    19. MercatorLondon on

      I bet there are some people thinking how to monetise on this.
      Matterhorn bottled water – limited edition.
      Flown by air-shipping around the globe like Evian.

    20. Remyala on

      Went to Aletsch Glacier about 8 years ago, it had been there since the last ice age. Went again recently, i was speechless to see how much more it had melted in just 8 years. It will most definitely completely disappear within our generation’s lifetime, if that isn’t a sign of impending doom i dont know what is.

    23. Ok_Boysenberry5849 on

      Climate change is hitting the mountains hard.

      But even those who visit the mountains don’t understand what they’re looking at.

      They see the slopes, dusty and unstable, where a glacier used to be, and they think this is what a mountain looks like. It’s not. There used to be ice, 200 meters deep, here. It’s gone. Now there’s 20m deep ice at the bottom, and the mountainsides are falling over, because the glacier left a hole.

      They see the tip of the glacial tongue, and below it, 500 meters of bare rock. They don’t think that this rock is bare because 40 years ago the glacier covered it. It’s melted now. In 50 years there will be bushes, and flowers. For now… a mark of ongoing change.

      Those who climb the mountains – the alpinists – notice that change the most. The activity is changing fast. The climbing season used to be July-August-September. Now it’s increasingly just June. After that, the glaciers are too crevasses, the rocks to unstable. The permafrost is melting; the ice that’s keeping the tallest mountains together is thawing, and the mountains themselves are falling down. Spontaneous rockfall has never been this much of a threat. Each year it’s worse.

      „What do we care? Alpinism never helped anyone. A nice green landscape is as good as a glaciated one. “

      Right. But those glaciers feed the rivers. The rivers feed our fields. The fields, feed us.

      For now the glaciers are melting faster and faster, and the rivers stay full. We’re consuming the reserves, millennia of them, at breakneck pace.

      In 20 years the glaciers will be gone, or reduced to almost nothing, and there will be nothing left to melt.

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