Mont Blanc glacier at risk of collapsing due to climate change. - NBCNewsMACH
No one has had to be evacuated in Courmayeur, town spokesman Moreno Vignolini said, adding that the closed road is used mostly to access summer homes. The mayor was meeting with residents to hear their concerns and they had some limited access to the area to check their properties.
The report projects that if nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, these glaciers in general will shrink 36 percent between now and the end of the century. But smaller glaciers, like those in the Alps, could lose up to 80 percent of their ice by the year 2100 in a worst-case scenario. Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at ETH Zurich and head of the group Glacier Monitoring Switzerland, said the loss of glacier ice in Switzerland and Europe over the last five years has been the strongest since measurements began in the 1950s. He noted that the freezing line of 0 degree Celsius rose above the top of Mont Blanc this summer, “which very rarely has happened.”
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