The speed of dissolution of the glaciers has doubled in the last 4 years compared to the previous decade indicate it the data relating to the glaciers of Canada, the United States and Switzerland, which between 2021 and 2024 have reduced by 12%. To indicate this drastic change is the study led by Brian Senounos, of the University of Columbia North British, published in the magazine Geophysical Research Letters. In addition to the hottest temperatures, the dust phenomenon arriving from the Sahara and those produced by forest fires have contributed to the phenomenon.
“The dissolution of the glaciers is simply falling into peakso much so that in the last four years the glaciers have lost twice the ice from the previous decade. The glaciers are simply collapsed, “says Menounos, referring to the results of the analyzes made through aerial investigations and observations on the ground of 3 glaciers In the Western Canada, 4 in the part north-western of the United States And 20 in Swissall of great cultural, tourist importance and as a water resource. The data indicate that Everyone has reduced drastically and that the effect would have been worsened by about 40% them reduced ability to reflect sunlightthe so -called Albedo.
The phenomenon detected in the research that saw a peak between 2021 and 2024, in America due to the violent fires that occurred in those years and in Switzerland due to the large amount of powders transported by the Sahara by the winds. In both cases, the arrival of dark powders led the glaciers to absorb more warmth than usual, thus accepting the dissolution.
“Our companies should seriously start wondering what future implications will be due to the loss of ice,” commented Migliunos. “We have to start preparing – he added – for when the glaciers of Western Canada and the United States have disappeared”.
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