Iceland Holds Funeral Honoring Glacier That Melted Away
(HuffingtonPost) A plaque on the former glacier warns that all glaciers might be gone within 200 years.
A funeral for a melted glacier was cold comfort for Icelanders worried about how climate change will affect their country.
On Sunday, about 100 officials, activists and others climbed up the remnants of the Okjokull glacier for a memorial service dedicated to what once was a massive chunk of ice that stretched six square miles.
The ceremony included the unveiling of a plaque honoring the melted glacier, which is now called just “Ok,” minus the Icelandic word for glacier, according to the Associated Press.
The funeral was a long time coming: Icelandic geologist Oddur Sigurðsson predicted the glacier extinction about a decade ago.
Organizers described the plaque as “a letter to the future” that warns all glaciers could follow Okjokull to extinction within the next 200 years, according to Sky News.
The words on the plaque read, “This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”
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