Despite an overwhelming body of scientific evidence tracking humanity’s contribution to climate change, it is often difficult to grasp the enormity of a phenomenon that unfolds so gradually.
Using the latest geolocation and 3D visualisation techniques, they were able to pinpoint the precise patch of sky from which Mittelholzer snapped the photos for maximum impact. “We knew the kind of changes we were expected to see but from that height you can get the scale of what is happening. It’s still breathtaking and heartbreaking.”
As well as destabilising the mountainsides to which they have clung for millennia, vanishing glaciers are predicted to have a severe impact on food production – reliant on seasonal meltwater – and on tourism.
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