Climate activists scaled a Swiss mountain to hold a funeral for an alpine glacier they say will be lost forever due to global warming pic.twitter.com/p28V6xbRHd
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 23, 2019
So what do they do when glaciers are enlarging? Hold a resurrection party?
Via The Hill:
Hundreds gathered over the weekend to climb a mountain and hold a funeral for a dwindling glacier in Switzerland being lost due to the impact of climate change.
About 250 people hiked up to the glacier on Sunday and held a funeral as a priest gave a speech to commemorate the disappearing ice, according to CNN. Many in attendance were dressed in formal, black funeral attire.
CNN reports the Pizol glacier in the Glarus Alps has lost roughly 80 to 90 percent of its volume since 2006, according to Matthias Huss, a glacier specialist at ETH Zurich university.
Huss told the news outlet there are only 26,000 square meters of ice left in the glacier and it will be the first glacier in the country to be taken off the Swiss glacier surveillance network.