On Our "Virtual Route 66" : #RandomThoughts For the Week-End
We present the following #RandomThoughts courtesy Bloomberg and the Uprising Team as our journey of service continues: Switzerland’s glaciers are becoming a front-row seat to climate destruction For most of its existence glaciology has been a slow-moving profession, but this year is different. The belting heat waves that struck Europe over the past few months handed the specialists in Alpine ice sheets an unprecedented set of challenges. And some of their charges — like the Vadret dal Corvatsch glacier above the Engadin valley — aren’t going to be around much longer. Late last month, Matthias Huss, the head of Switzerland’s glacier monitoring body GLAMOS announced that his measuring station at Corvatsch was being shut down, a “bitter” outcome of extreme melting this year that left little ice left to measure. Matthias Huss, left, adjusts his measurement pole, left, while colleagues insert a Kovacs drill into the ice on the Plaine Morte glacier, on Aug. 30. Photographer: Jeff Black/B