As the world marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock in a ceremony on the former glacier in western Iceland.
Hundreds of people have gathered to honour the world’s first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warned that some 400 others are at risk.
As the world marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock in a ceremony on the former glacier in western Iceland, attended by local researchers and their peers at Rice University in the United States who initiated the project. This combination shows a NASA handout image taken in 1986 showing the Okjokull glacier atop the Ok Volcano in Iceland as well as a NASA handout image taken in 2019 showing where the Okjokull glacier has melted away ‘This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.It also bears the label ‘415 ppm CO2’, referring to the record level of carbon dioxide measured in the atmosphere last May.
‘Memorials everywhere stand for either human accomplishments, like the deeds of historic figures, or the losses and deaths we recognise as important,’ she said.
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