Way to go Alex! Great interview. Living in the Sonoran Desert I seldom think of glaciers. Thanks for raising awareness of their loss in terms I can understand. 23 million Olympic size swimming pools of ice is mind boggling. Climate change is a world wide problem affecting all of us.
To be honest, I didn't use to give melting glaciers much thought for a long time - even though I could literally see them melting away. I think everybody should read The Great Melt, but I might be slightly biased.
I remember reading about a funeral being held for a glacier in Iceland (it was in The Great Melt). Such a sad thing. Living in Switzerland, I have witnessed the decline of our glaciers first hand, but those numbers are just staggering - 23 million pools?! That's insane.
And like you said it's not just the countries who are responsible for it who suffer. I remember our discussion on your podcast on the question "how do we get people in Switzerland to care about sea level rise?". As you said, melting glaciers are having a much larger effect.
Way to go Alex! Great interview. Living in the Sonoran Desert I seldom think of glaciers. Thanks for raising awareness of their loss in terms I can understand. 23 million Olympic size swimming pools of ice is mind boggling. Climate change is a world wide problem affecting all of us.
To be honest, I didn't use to give melting glaciers much thought for a long time - even though I could literally see them melting away. I think everybody should read The Great Melt, but I might be slightly biased.
I remember reading about a funeral being held for a glacier in Iceland (it was in The Great Melt). Such a sad thing. Living in Switzerland, I have witnessed the decline of our glaciers first hand, but those numbers are just staggering - 23 million pools?! That's insane.
And like you said it's not just the countries who are responsible for it who suffer. I remember our discussion on your podcast on the question "how do we get people in Switzerland to care about sea level rise?". As you said, melting glaciers are having a much larger effect.
Thanks for continuing to raise awareness.