AP: Swiss glacier watcher warns recent heat wave threatens severe melt again this year after record...

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Swiss glacier watcher warns recent heat wave threatens severe melt again this year after record 2022

BY JAMEY KEATEN
Updated 6:10 AM EDT, September 1, 2023

GENEVA (AP) — A top glacier watcher has warned that a warm early summer combined with a heat wave last week may have caused severe glacier melt in Switzerland, threatening to make 2023 its second-worst year for ice loss after a record thaw last year.

Matthias Huss of the GLAMOS glacier monitoring center said full data won’t be in until late September and a precipitous drop in temperatures and high-altitude snowfall in recent days could help stem any more damage.

But early signs based on readings from five sites and modeling results across Switzerland suggest considerable damage may already be done.

“We can definitely say that we had very high melting in Switzerland and in Europe in general because the temperatures, they were extremely high for a long time — a more than one week heat wave,” Huss said in an interview this week.

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[Think. Again.]

1. I wonder if anyone...

...is keeping track of and compiling all of these smaller, early, initial, effects of climate change.

It would be interesting at some point in the future, if anyone still has the capability or interest by then, to study the timelime of all these micro events and look at how they begin to set off the coming larger events, and how the entire ecological system will eventually react to that onslaught.