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7 Shocking Photos Reveal What 100 Years Of Climate Change Has Done To Arctic Glaciers
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In the early 1900s, Arctic glaciers were nature's most mysterious and undiscovered wonders. Over 100 years of research, exploration, and exploitation later, the glaciers have become a haunting testament to the global warming effects.
Christian Åslund, a Swedish photojournalist who works with Greenpeace, gathered some early photos of glaciers ice in Svalbard, Norway from the Norwegian Polar Institute, and juxtaposed them next to his own photos of the same locations from 2002. The differences in these before and after photos were unbelievable. He's using the photo series to promote #MyClimateAction, a National Geographic campaign encouraging discussion about climate change and as a protest against Norwegian oil companies drilling in the melting ice in the Arctic region.
See each troubling comparison below, and sign Save The Arctic's petition against Arctic oil here, in hopes of stopping the devastating consequences of global warming.
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taken pictures in winter for first one summer in second what a fake scare mongering knobs
Incredibly sad. My boys are 4 and 7 years. What kind of struggles they will have to face in their adulthood Because of our creedines!???
While this is an impressive photo project, and the decline of ice is alarming, I am not sure if these photos can illustrate climate change. It is typical arrogance of humans to draw easy conclusions. I think we still only partly understand the dynamics of whether, and that includes decline and rise of ice masses in different regions of the world. Rallyin against artic oil drilling is another story, though, since we are speaking about very fragile ecosystems. Anyway, the photos are impressive!
I partially agree with you. Indeed we cannot draw any conclusion from these few pictures (there can be local, seasonal, annual variation). But we (i.e. the scientist) understand now pretty well the dynamics and icecaps are effectively regressing
You are surely right that the knoweldge is growing. What I think remains quite challenging is to discern short- medium- and long-term circles, i.e. a temporary "down" not neccesarily is a full decline. And I think it is still not fully understood to which degree which effects on the climate are man-made and which come from natural processes.
But haven't the ice been receding since the last Ice Age, and with less ice reflecting light wouldn't that aid in accelerate the warming?
There is no question that the Earth's climate changes. It has been for a billion years or so. There is absolutely no evidence that man has anything to do with it - certainly not enough data to suggest that drastic measures must be taken. 1000 years ago, Nordic settlers were living on Greenland and growing crops, in a much warmer world on average than today. 400 years ago, Europe was in the middle of "Little Ice Age" What we're seeing today is normal variations - nothing more.
Scientist know plenty to know that a lot of glaciers are gone because of us. Do research about it and you'll find plenty, like black snow..
We really are destroying our planet.
We are not destroying our planet. We are just making it so we can't live on it.
yep pretty much. But lots of species will suffer of this as well (not that we don't a lot of other ways make them disappear)
I'm not.
we? You do realize this is cyclical and has been happening for tens of thousands of years
People like you will deny climate change until we're all dying because of sheer and willful ignorance. Nearly all the world's scientists agree this is a HUGE, important issue, and something we need to do something about yesterday. But ol' Jonathan on Bored Panda obviously knows better, right? Because you're a climate scientist, correct?
"cyclical" implies that glaciers are being rebuilt. a simple google search will conclude that glaciers are NOT being rebuilt.
yeah right...at this speed and this amplitude? a little bit fact check?
@Miracello: 1) Jonathan speaks about tens thousands of years and no such speed warming has been happening in this period 2)you know we have data way over 20 years and thermometers aren't the only indicators of temperature? But please be ridiculous if you want, it's quite funny :)
The most disturbing thing about this is that there are people who still deny that climate change is being caused by humans.
Really? I've been downvoted for expressing the scientific consensus agreed upon by over 100 international government agencies? Smh
A "scientific consensus" should not be taken as a hard fact, particularly when it comes to scientists on a government payroll. It's, at best, the best guess we have thus far.
While this is an impressive photo project, and the decline of ice is alarming, I am not sure if these photos can illustrate climate change. It is typical arrogance of humans to draw easy conclusions. I think we still only partly understand the dynamics of whether, and that includes decline and rise of ice masses in different regions of the world. Rallyin against artic oil drilling is another story, though, since we are speaking about very fragile ecosystems. Anyway, the photos are impressive!
I partially agree with you. Indeed we cannot draw any conclusion from these few pictures (there can be local, seasonal, annual variation). But we (i.e. the scientist) understand now pretty well the dynamics and icecaps are effectively regressing
You are surely right that the knoweldge is growing. What I think remains quite challenging is to discern short- medium- and long-term circles, i.e. a temporary "down" not neccesarily is a full decline. And I think it is still not fully understood to which degree which effects on the climate are man-made and which come from natural processes.
But haven't the ice been receding since the last Ice Age, and with less ice reflecting light wouldn't that aid in accelerate the warming?
There is no question that the Earth's climate changes. It has been for a billion years or so. There is absolutely no evidence that man has anything to do with it - certainly not enough data to suggest that drastic measures must be taken. 1000 years ago, Nordic settlers were living on Greenland and growing crops, in a much warmer world on average than today. 400 years ago, Europe was in the middle of "Little Ice Age" What we're seeing today is normal variations - nothing more.
Scientist know plenty to know that a lot of glaciers are gone because of us. Do research about it and you'll find plenty, like black snow..
We really are destroying our planet.
We are not destroying our planet. We are just making it so we can't live on it.
yep pretty much. But lots of species will suffer of this as well (not that we don't a lot of other ways make them disappear)
I'm not.
we? You do realize this is cyclical and has been happening for tens of thousands of years
People like you will deny climate change until we're all dying because of sheer and willful ignorance. Nearly all the world's scientists agree this is a HUGE, important issue, and something we need to do something about yesterday. But ol' Jonathan on Bored Panda obviously knows better, right? Because you're a climate scientist, correct?
"cyclical" implies that glaciers are being rebuilt. a simple google search will conclude that glaciers are NOT being rebuilt.
yeah right...at this speed and this amplitude? a little bit fact check?
@Miracello: 1) Jonathan speaks about tens thousands of years and no such speed warming has been happening in this period 2)you know we have data way over 20 years and thermometers aren't the only indicators of temperature? But please be ridiculous if you want, it's quite funny :)
The most disturbing thing about this is that there are people who still deny that climate change is being caused by humans.
Really? I've been downvoted for expressing the scientific consensus agreed upon by over 100 international government agencies? Smh
A "scientific consensus" should not be taken as a hard fact, particularly when it comes to scientists on a government payroll. It's, at best, the best guess we have thus far.