A team of researchers in Switzerland used cutting-edge simulation to show how the Aletsch Glacier will change as the planet gets warmer, the ETH technical university in Zurich said in a statement on Thursday.The glacier, which covers 86 square kilometres in the Swiss Alps and holds about 11 billion tonnes of ice, has already seen its tongue reced...
A team of researchers in Switzerland used cutting-edge simulation to show how the Aletsch Glacier will change as the planet gets warmer, the ETH technical university in Zurich said in a statement on Thursday.
The glacier, which covers 86 square kilometres in the Swiss Alps and holds about 11 billion tonnes of ice, has already seen its tongue recede by about a kilometre since the turn of the century.
Scientists predict that trend will continue even if the world is able to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement target of capping global warming at "well below" two degrees Celsius.
The ETH researchers said that even in the best-case scenario, the glacier would lose 50 percent of its volume and length by the year 2100, while in the worst-case scenario, "a couple patches of ice will be all that's left."
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