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Noel Kelly

A long good bye...

"Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today.

Not gonna lie, it made me cry."

From @misterduncan at birdland/ @duncan

x.com/misterduncan/status/1820

Rhone glacier, 2009.
Rhone glacier, 2024.
5 August at 3:55 | Open on ruby.social
24 comments
The Gym Nerd

@gnoll110 @duncan I was like "isn't this a different location?"

5 August at 5:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Overwhelmed

@gnoll110 in 1995 we took Granny to the Miage glacier near Courmayeur, in Aosta Valley were she lived . She hadn"t seen the glacier since a lot of years, she almost couldn't recognize it. In 2018 I was again in Aosta Valley with my sons. When I was a child we went there every summer, but I decided to visit different places, I feared the shock of what I could have seen, google maps images are frightening πŸ’” 😒

5 August at 5:55 | Open on mastodon.uno
Dr. Andrea Hacker

@gnoll110 @duncan the decline is so overwhelming!!! I was so shocked, when I returned to the RhΓ΄ne glacier in 2018 after some 20 years. There was a feeble attempt to slow the melting with a massive tarpaulin covering the weathered surface of the glacier. It gave the whole scene even more of a death-bed atmosphere. Like a big dragon dying under a blanket. What have we done!?

5 August at 5:55 | Open on mastodon.online
Luuk_Aalders

@ahacker @gnoll110 @duncan

What are we still doing! We refuse to change our habits to save the planet so our children's will have a livable earth too.

5 August at 9:18 | Open on mastodon.nl
Moppi
DrGeraintLLannfrancheta

@gnoll110 @duncan it's damn ice. With minimum ecosystem. Plastic in the sea, poison in the soil... With our limited time and personal energy there are things with higher priority, no?

5 August at 6:40 | Open on nafo.army
Matt Flor

@DrGeraintLLannfrancheta @gnoll110 @duncan It's a sad but powerful illustration of the climate catastrophe. Which will only get worse. So it's definitely up there among those highest priority problems.

5 August at 7:03 | Open on mastodon.green
Extra_Special_Carbon

@DrGeraintLLannfrancheta @gnoll110 @duncan No. Of all of those, climate change is the one that will spell our doom.

5 August at 9:54 | Open on mastodon.world
DrGeraintLLannfrancheta

@Extra_Special_Carbon @gnoll110 @duncan no, climate change will not doom us. Is it man-made? Yes. Will humankind survive this gradual change? Yes. Our sin lies that certain species are not. This is an eternal sin - at least we should DNS sequence ASAP ever thing we find. No, we will not all change our consumption behaviour therefore we should plan realistically. #dnasequence all flora and fauna, now! #UN looking at you

5 August at 10:53 | Open on nafo.army
DELETED

@DrGeraintLLannfrancheta @gnoll110 @duncan That’s sweetwater that is important for the ecosystem further down the mountain. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

5 August at 10:37 | Open on nrw.social
Duncan Blues

@DrGeraintLLannfrancheta @gnoll110 @duncan
The glaciers are vitally important to the ecosystem too as they provide fresh water to the regions below during the summer. Whole areas could run dry when they are finally gone.
Also the ice's white surface reflects sunlight away from the ground and reduces global warming.

5 August at 10:53 | Open on norden.social
Paul Sutton

@gnoll110 @duncan

I can see this photo being cited in a paper at some point.

5 August at 7:13 | Open on qoto.org
Siegfried.

@gnoll110 @duncan I've seen similar in Austria, the Alps, and in Norway. I cannot explain, I am in tears.

5 August at 7:21 | Open on troet.cafe
Bob Tregilus 🐧 πŸ“·
selje πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
skinnyraf
teacher_rick

@gnoll110 @duncan I have to look them up on my laptop, but I have two similar photos from the Grossglockner in Austria. +20 years in between.
Heartbreaking.

5 August at 8:06 | Open on mastodon.nl
Sethy Bowoy 𓁣 probably
fadimat105

@gnoll110 @duncan Most of the glaciers that I crossed in my childhood/youth have almost disappeared. We are simply too stupid.

5 August at 8:35 | Open on social.servus.at
Ewen Bell

@gnoll110

You managed to keep your hair, the glacier did not.

5 August at 8:43 | Open on photog.social
Peter Lee

@gnoll110 @duncan
And perhaps unsurprisingly the original post on X is inundated by replies claiming that there nothing to see here, that glaciers grow and shrink regularly, or criticising the OP for travelling.

5 August at 9:15 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
Josje Toorop

@gnoll110 @duncan We could start by not travelling so much to see the damage for ourselves.

5 August at 9:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Atreides

@gnoll110 I was there 40 years ago. It was even bigger. There is only 20% left now. Keep on burning πŸ”₯ #fossilfuels and it will disappear.

5 August at 9:56 | Open on mastodon.nl
betalars :antifa:

@gnoll110 to be fair, the effects of climate change are somewhat exaggerated by the wider field of view on the second image.
Not saying it's less bad, but it's more difficult to understand at a glance.

5 August at 10:31 | Open on chaos.social
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