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Glaciers worldwide have lost more than nine trillion tons of ice in half a century. What will glaciers look like in the next few decades? “It all depends on what humans do now in terms of greenhouse gas emissions:” This is the message a scientist sent during an expedition led by the European Space Agency to the Gorner Glacier in Switzerland – one of the largest ice masses in the Alps.
As world leaders gather at the 26th United Nations Conference of the Parties to Climate Change, watch the exclusive premiere of the documentary that follows European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, along with a team of glaciologists and scientists. Climate expert, on their way through the Alps to learn how to ride global temperature Affects glaciers negatively.
This documentary features stunning views of the Gorner Glacier as well as interviews with climate experts as they explain how we can monitor glaciers using satellite data and on-site measurements.
An astronaut from the European Space Agency joins an expedition to a glacier in the Alps
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quote: Video: Glacier Melting (2021, November 5) Accessed November 5, 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2021-11-video-glaciers.html
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