The dramatic conclusion of scientists about Italian Alps – Onet.pl

 
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  Italian glaciers in the Alps called “zanikającmi witnessing global warming”
 
 
 

What happened to the Italian glaciers is the best and most expressively illustration of the effects of climate change – emphasize the researchers.

Their dramatic as up notes, the data and conclusions contained in a report prepared at the University of Milan and presented in the Italian parliament. The document of scientists shows that the loss of water due to melting glaciers, disappearing almost literally in his eyes crossed in less than 35 years 2 billion liters.

As noted, just look at the Forni glacier within the Stelvio National Park, the largest in the Italian Alps. Experts note that this ice giant has indeed become a dwarf – left him only three stumps. Similarly changed and other Lys and Lex Blanche in the Aosta Valley, Ventina in Lombardy, Careser and Mandron-Adamello in Trento.

Since the 60s of the last century there was reduction in the surface of the glaciers in the Italian mountains from 527 to 370 square kilometers, and so close to one-third. All dwindled, and 200 at all disappeared. It’s a process that can not be stopped, because coming years bring more record hot weather, also high in the mountains.

– Scenarios show that just a few decades the landscape of the Alps increasingly will resemble the Pyrenees and the Apennines, completely free of glaciers. It seems that this is the inevitable future for the mountains – he said Claudio Smiraglia glaciology lecturer of Milan University.

Authors the report expressed confidence that the example of the Italian glaciers, which is called “disappearing witnessing global warming” in emphatic manner shows how urgent need for an agreement at the December climate conference in Paris on keeping these dangerous changes.

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