This impressive fact came to my mind while chatting with a friend on Instagram. He posted an old picture from Grossglockner Austria so I recalled my top biking moments around there where I was riding during a snowfall on 1st of July (!) up at 2500m. My jaw dropped dead when he told me that the local Pasterze glacier is pretty much gone now. I mean, I remember that when I was around it was already low and older guys where commenting on how massive it used to be but still...
Here's my images from my motorcycle trip there back in 2011:
I kept staring at the melting point wondering how this is going to be in the near future:
This is an image of my friend's Dad when he was around on his bike back in 1938 (!) :
Now brace and see an image of the same glacier from 2019:
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See the comparison with the red circle helping you as a point of reference:
| 2011 | 2019 |
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Not much of a glacier anymore. How sad is this!
This wasn't a linear downgrading.
See this image from 1985 with a red circle at the same point of reference:
Crazy isn't it? The 1985 image is chronically closer to the recent images but optically much closer to the 1938 image. The recent first ever recorded rain on Greenland's highest top is not just a coincidence. I think facts and pictures speak for themselves - not much to add about the obvious.