A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of photos that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers.
Duncan Porter, a software developer from Bristol, posted photos that were taken in the same spot at the Rhone glacier in August 2009 and August 2024. The white ice that filled the background has shrunk to reveal grey rock. A once-small pool at the bottom, out of sight in the original, has turned into a vast green lake.
“Not gonna lie, it made me cry,” Porter said in a viral post on social media platform X on Sunday night.
I’m sure a lot of the comments on other platforms would say something along the lines of “They obviously took one picture in the summer and one in the winter… 😒 But enjoy your antifa money 🤣🤣🤣”
I always thought the Mer de Glace at the Mont Blanc illustrates this really well. You arrive and there’s a sign “the glacier was here in 1910” and that’s where tourists back then.
To get to the actual glacier, you have to eall down many flights of metal stairs for about half an hour and there’s several signs for different years, 1950, 1990, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, something like this, with the years between each sign getting shorter but the distance staying roughly the same. And from the top it’s really far away.
Of course, once you actually reach the glacier, you get to the main attraction, a 3m diameter tunnel they bored 100m deep into it as a tourist attraction with ice sculptures inside. Above the tunnel you can see the remains of the tunnel from the previous year, half melted…
I first went in 2013, you had to climb down quite a long flight of steps to get to it.
Went this summer, and there’s an actual gondola 🚡 to take you down to it, then 400 steps down after that
Actually horrifying
Yeah, we’ll deal with it when it affects us personally! Not like nature will just brush us away…right?
We are fucked.
Reminds me of an economist who was telling everyone that a few degrees of climate change would barely cost 1% of economic growth so it would not be an issue at all. The climate scientists replied that at -4°C there was a mile of ice at the spot he was sitting and you would think that this would surely affect the economy, and that +4°C would have similar results.
Don’t worry. Some people I know can still go skiing, so clearly it’s all fake and a non-issue.
Everyone in this sub agrees that climate change is a disastrous event, and that we’re not doing enough. But as soon as you suggest changing to a system that actually may do something against it, you guys drop the t-word like there’s no tomorrow.
What’s the T word?
Starts with “t”, rhymes with the Sumerian god of water and patron God of the city of Eridu “Enki”.
What’s the t-word?
Is it titties? It’s titties, isn’t it?
I wish it was tiddies, m8
I genuinely don’t know what the t-word is, though. I’m not feeling extra smart right now. Please feel free to help me out here.
I explained in a funny way to another fella: it starts with “t”, and rhymes with the Sumerian god of water and patron of the city or Eridu, “Enki”.
No, it’s Testosterone
My dad thinks climate change is a scam and “someone 8s making a lot of money from it”
My dad also laments that the local lake doesn’t freeze over like it did when he was a teenager, DRIVING on top of it with his brothers.
Totally unrelated to climate change though. Cause that’s totes fake.
Also storms are more violent and frequent, winters are basically spring 2.0 now and the local river has flooded way past historic levels and could threaten the downtown area of their city within the decade.
But all that is SOOOOOOO unrelated.
He is partially right - there are people making a lot of money from climate change… Or at least from causing it
That’s capitalism for you: one company makes money creating the problem and another fixing it! It’s double-pumped!
To be fair there are also a lot of ‘green’ company scams out there too. Grifters are everywhere
The cognitive dissonance is so strange to me. I’m a native Cheesehead and it’s a well documented fact that ice fishing season in Wisconsin is quickly getting shorter and shorter due to the higher winter temperatures.
Maybe it’s a branding issue. What if we start referring to “climate change” as “demise of ice fishing” or “imminent collapse of the snowmobile industry”?
imminent collapse of the snow industry
That should make the tourism industry get their lobbying straight.
While I think climate change is a real issue and we need to do something about it, I can see the rationale behind your dad’s thoughts and childhood memories.
Is the planet getting hotter is one thing and was it caused by humans is another thing.
No, it really isn’t. We know it’s us now. We’ve known.
A thousand year event, every year.
The hottest day on record every year
“It won’t happen in our lifetimes”
guess what mfers
They obviously took one picture in the summer and one in the winter… 😒 But enjoy your antifa money 🤣🤣🤣
Not sure if this is supposed to be a joke comment or just weird.
But enjoy your antifa money 🤣🤣🤣
You know you are on an anarchist instance right?
I tried to reference them
Oh I didn’t see that before. Ok I find the joke funny.
Chasing Ice remains a terrific documentary that clearly showed all of this happening 15 years ago.
The Guardian - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for The Guardian:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: Medium - Factual Reporting: Mixed - United Kingdom
Wikipedia about this sourceSearch topics on Ground.News
the post also attracted a steady stream of comments from climate denying-accounts subscribed to X’s premium service, many of which were abusive and misrepresented established climate science
My god
to the surprise of noone
