2009Jan19: Most glaciers will disappear by mid-century.
2009Jan19: Most glaciers will disappear by middle of century and increase sea levels, according to a World Glacier Monitoring Service report. If the climate is not really cooling dramatically, they’ll retreat and disintegrate. This means many will simply be lost in the next decades – 10, 20, 30, 40 years,” says Professor Wilfried Haeberli, the director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (UK Guardian).
Reference: UK Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/19/glacier-rising-sea-levels
Image Description: Refuge Bayssellance (2 651 m) et petit Vignemale (3032 m), col de Hourquette à droite (2 734 m), vue partielle du glacier d’accès au Vignemale (3 298 m). La photo est prise du col de Labas (entre le pic de Labas et le pic de la Sède). Photo by Acer11, 2007Sept12. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bayssellance_Vignemale.JPG Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license.
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