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#Glaciers

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2024 European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report

Key messages:
a)
#Europe experienced its warmest year, with the second highest number of heat stress days and tropical nights, on record.

b)
The area of Europe experiencing days with temperatures below freezing is decreasing, with the year seeing the largest area on record with fewer than three months (90 days) of frost days. The number of ‘cold stress days’ was the lowest on record.

c)
For the European region and for the Mediterranean Sea, the annual sea surface temperature was the highest on record. It was also the warmest year on record for European lakes.

d)
#Glaciers in #Scandinavia and #Svalbard saw their highest recorded annual rates of mass loss. They also saw the largest mass loss of any #glacier region globally.

e)
Western Europe saw one of the ten wettest years on record and Europe experienced the most widespread #flooding since 2013.

f)
The year saw a record proportion of electricity generation by renewables, at 45%

climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/20

Report (PDF):
climate.copernicus.eu/sites/de

#ClimateScience
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateChange
#ExtremWeather
#Copernicus

Cover European state of the climate Report 2024
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Did the #snowballEarth give complex life a boost?
Planet-wide #glaciers may have filled the #oceans with mineral nutrients.
As massive glaciers scratched and scarred #Earth’s rocky surface, they freed less-common minerals, which were later flushed into the seas as the ice melted into giant glacial rivers. These minerals in turn may have spurred nutrient cycling in the oceans, boosting the metabolism of microbial life.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of the globe oriented over Australia and the Pacific, with most of the ocean covered with light-colored ice.
Ars Technica · Did the snowball Earth give complex life a boost?By Ars Contributors
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earthling

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The next generation of Bakonzo people will be profoundly impacted by the loss of glaciers. Masereka says: ‘I will tell my son it was very beautiful to have snow on the Rwenzori for our livelihood … it will be unfortunate, but I will encourage him to involve himself in conservation-related activities as an alternative to the snow, which was our resource in our time’

#Africa
#glaciers
#water
#children

Four children stand by an adobe house, in a lush garden with banana plants.
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Jeff
It’s getting hard to put a smile on my face these days. Lots of negative nonsense all abound. But it’s pictures like these, that help remind me that there is still good in this world.

“How could the world go back to the way it was, when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.”



#naturephotography #hiking #olympicnationalpark #sunset #fallcolors #mountains #glaciers #lotr #nature #outdoorphotography #gooutside #naturelover #happyplace
#happyplace
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Levka

#glaciers #Venezuela

"The Venezuelan Andes have suffered an irreversible loss as the country becomes the first nation to lose all its glaciers due to accelerating climate change effects. The once majestic Humboldt Glacier, also known as Corona Glacier, has diminished to a mere snow patch, marking a critical milestone in global warming’s impact on mountain ecosystems."

farmingdale-observer.com/2025/

farmingdale-observer.com · Venezuela becomes the first country in the world to lose all its glaciers due to climate change.The Venezuelan Andes have suffered an irreversible loss as the country becomes the first nation to lose all its glaciers due to accelerating climate change effects. The once majestic Humboldt Glacier, also known as Corona Glacier, has diminished to a mere snow patch, marking a critical milestone in global warming's…
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Melting #glaciers caused almost 2cm of #sealevelrise this century, study reveals
Decades-long research shows world’s glaciers collectively lost 6.542tn tonnes of #ice between 2000 and 2023, causing an 18mm (0.7in) rise in global #sealevel.
Regional losses were highly variable; the Antarctic and subantarctic islands lost 2% of their volume but central Europe’s glaciers lost 39%.
36% more ice having melted between 2012 and 2023 compared with the previous decade.
theguardian.com/environment/20
#climate

The Guardian · Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study revealsBy Mariam Amini
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CelloMom On Cars

"#China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small #glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data released in March showed.

The dramatic ice loss, from the Arctic to the Alps, from South America to the Tibetan Plateau, is expected to accelerate as #ClimateChange, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, pushes global temperatures higher."

edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/chi

CNN · China’s glacier area shrinks by 26% over six decades due to global warmingBy Reuters
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