Avalanche Marmolada, Cnr glaciologist: “Tragedy is confirmation of global warming”

The avalanche that occurred on the Marmolada “confirms the global warming underway on the planet. It is a warning: from this tragedy we should at least learn the lesson and start reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. There is no discussion in the scientific community because 97% of those who study the climate say that warming is man-made. Glaciers are a sentinel of these changes. ” Jacopo Gabrieli, a researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR, said this to Andkronos, commenting on the accident that took place yesterday. “The seracs – continues Gabrieli – are conformations of unstable ice. They tend to collapse when they want, day or night, but with warming the collapses are much more frequent. Due to climate change these conformations are transformed into real bombs. Watchmaking. Emphasis was placed on the fact that yesterday it was 10 degrees at the top, but the real problem is that it has been very hot two months ago. From the weather station in Pian di Fiacconi we saw that the average temperatures in June are comparable to August average of the last 20 years “.