An Icelandic glacier is melting faster than it can recover due to climate change, experts have warned, as footage has captured the startling rate of melting ice
"Climate change is already having dire consequences around the world and we have to take responsibility for that., will have a huge influence on the climate impacts that we will have to deal with in the future. The volume of ice melt that we are seeing in Iceland is just one of the indicators that show us the scale of those impacts."The world's rising temperatures are having a catastrophic impact on Iceland's glaciers.
Pic: Dr Kieran Baxter/University of DundeeSnævarr Guðmundsson, a glaciologist at the South East Iceland Nature Research Centre, said:"While this footage represents only a fraction of the 16km wide glacier terminus, it demonstrates how rapidly Breidamerkurjokull is now melting."When a glacier is in balance the winter accumulation would equal the summer melt, but we do not see that here.
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