(Bloomberg) – The Swiss glacier collapsed and destroyed most of the alpine village of Blatten in the wave of rock and ice.
Live shots on Wednesday show 3 million cubic meters of rocks and mud Burning Blatten and the nearby Lonza River. According to the cantonal government in Valais, this potentially increases threats.
“The worst scenario has become a reality,” said Raphaël Mayoran, Head of Natural Danger Service for Valais, Wednesday to journalists: “It’s an extremely rare phenomenon.”
10 days ago, about 300 people from the village in the southern Loetschental Valley were evacuated from the village as a risk of bursting on the birch glacier mounted. According to the Associated Press, the army was deployed to help with efforts to restore, with one person missing.
Scientists have long warned that the warming planet makes it difficult for the likelihood of such events. Since the pre -industrial period, the Alps have been heated about 2C, with many glaciers lost half of their matter since 1900. Three years ago, 11 people were killed after the ice shelves collapsed in Dolomites in Italy after record high temperatures.
Swiss scientists explicitly sounded an alarm over the measure of melting, which seems to be accelerating.
The world is currently on its way to crossing the threshold of critical warming of 1.5 ° C, some of which indicate the average temperature increase in double than until the end of the century. Over 1.5 ° C warming will have irreversible consequences for the mass of the iceberg, scientists warned in a recent study and underline the need to reduce greenhouses that have emissions.
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(Tagstotranslate) Swiss Collapse of Glacies (T) Alpine Village Blatten
