Climate change: Europe's melting glaciers | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- It is far too late to save the Alpine glaciers. And now, the dangers caused by tons of melting ice are rising sharply. Every year, climate change is destroying two of the currently 70 square kilometers of glaciers left in the Alps.
The permafrost in the Alps is thawing, and transforming what used to be sturdy slopes into loose screes. In addition, climate change is leading to significantly more extreme weather conditions every year, while heavy rainfall causes serious erosion. The result: avalanches and landslides like those in Bondo, Switzerland, or Valsertal in Austria.
In Switzerland, residential areas are shrinking as people are forced to leave their homes forever. The disappearance of glaciers as water reservoirs is already posing a major problem. Farmers in Engadine, who have been using meltwater for irrigation for centuries, are already facing water shortages. Last summer, they had to rely on helicopters to transport water to their herds in the Grison Alps. Above all, alpine villages depend on winter tourism to survive. Yet experts are forecasting that by mid-century, there will only be enough natural snow left to ski above 2,000 meters, which will spell out the end for about 70 percent of the ski resorts in the Eastern Alps. But instead of developing alternatives, lots of money is still being invested in ski tourism. Snow cannon are used to defy climate change, and artificial snow systems are under construction at ever higher altitudes. As usual, it’s the environment that is set to lose as the unique alpine landscape is further destroyed by soil compaction and erosion. Some municipalities are now working on new models of alpine tourism for the future. As global temperatures continue to rise, the cooler mountain regions will become increasingly attractive for tourists, especially in the summer.
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Corona Virus: I'm coming to save you mother Earth.
Humans finding vaccines: WE WILL BE BACK! - said with Arnold Terminator voice.
I wonder if thete was a change during the cancelled ski season?
Reducing population is a good thing but only if it up against the food supply and it’s getting in short supply
Aha! I agree with u, sometimes I felt bad of the corona virus but the same time I feel good! & so many thanks!! for the corona virus!? Because of it seem to be help our earth as well 🙂
Ohh.. Like! Agree! a lot of your said 👍💯🤗
Great documentary, insightful and impactive narrative. Thanks and keep up with the good work.
From HK
@@CROOZA2 vggchj
JUst to let you know that I like to watch your documentaries. This one is my favorite one.
Stop Greed and deforestation and maybe we'll live
Stop nature itself now that’s difficult
@lcyw20 Hemp.
We live in western Hungary near the Austrian border. We used to get around 3 to 5 meters of snow every winter and wide spread deep snow for at least 14 weeks of winter. Now we are lucky if we get more than 10 to 15 cms for a few weeks. We used to have snow weeks when no one in the villages could get into the nearby towns/schools now, so long as you don't live up in the hills like us, there are no snow days at all. This all began in the late 2000s and every year it gets worse. I can honestly see a time coming when we get no snow at all in winter, just a bit of ice and some hail.
i have always watched climate videos but this is the first time i saw students and am envious. ppl do not know how interesting it is that to understand simple things in the environment can change absolutely everything in the ecosystem. after finishing residency i will absolutely pursue to become an environmentalist.
Make sure they get paid enough and there are enough jobs first....
Awwno! My heart sinks. I have a thing for glaciers myself and to hear and see that they are disappearing hurts my heart.
Bless your heart x
we have global warming since the last ice age, otherwise we would be still under 2 miles of ice... Climate change: the climate was and will never be static. It's dynamic, always changing and hardly ever predictable for more than 4 or 5 days.
I must say this was most enjoyable , but the amount of damage done is unreversible.
unreversible... is not a word
Don't have children, unless your Okay with watching them starve....Quit destroying these mountains, if you can go there and not leave a trace, that's one thing, snow machines, are another, altogether, just adding to the speed of the destruction....
Starve to death, that is.
Will the land be ruined from top soil run off?
I know it is a human need to remain hopeful that horrible things will stop. Unfortunately, that is the worst thing to do. These changes will continue to worsen, and planning on that, with an eye to adapting not just to the moment, but to ten years down the road, is the only thing that will keep people alive. It's important to avoid getting stuck on losing "the good old days", because that isn't part of the future. Shift gears with an eye on "contingencies", no prolonging suffering.
Same here. Spring is so dry!
Ice melts like hell in record summer heat - Who would have thunk ?
Bed bugs can now survive at altitude and tourists introduced them to Alpine huts.
*Diatomaceous Earth* destroys all insects without being toxic.
@@liloleist5133 dont breathe it in tho
That’s my concern as well, that by the time the governments of the world starts taking our climate seriously it will be too late.
That's how we all do things basically. Nothing new
It has been too late since the end of World War II
I witnessed the effects of global warming fifty years ago on the farm where I grew up. There was no doubt that automobiles caused the changes I saw then.
It was already too late by the industrial revolution and the exponencial increase of the population. We can't stop what is coming, maybe 5% of us will survive...
@@endeavorwebs719 It would probable be best for any hope of a Living Earth if Humans just went extinct.
At 15:53, well there is somethings more important in life then just partying all the time. Folks need to wake up and take this stuff serious. Most folks could care less, as long as they have everything they need, new Iphone, latest clothes , cable TV, nothing else matters...
It's always another year and were all dead. The sky is falling, the sky is falling, chickenlittle said.
Except the sky isnt falling but the pot is slowly getting hotter and you're one of the lobsters being slowly cooked alive!
The Germans are very good with scientific research.
you must be super rich to afford watering with the damn helicopter :))
I know what can we to stop global warming... lets make and buy all shit from China and build coal centrals. then rase taxes and make europeans to buy electric cars :))
sure the legitimate way....not at all it will the super rich germans super richer...
Scientists: "We need to prepare for disastrous effects of climate change now because it's getting exponentially worse"
Elected lawmakers: "NUH-UH LOOK! A SNOWball!"
More hard science please.
We need everything to go electric now. I believe going nuclear will take at least 80% of CO2 emissions out of play.
Noway I love my pollution diesel truck 😜😜😜😜I call it my tesla crackpile
@@upupandaway5646 sardina
Adrian the scholarship shows it can't be done... each nuclear power station takes too long to build. And the ultimate problem remains the waste material. Maybe nuclear might help in a small way in a mix of primarily sustainable generators from sunshine, wind and ocean that together will provide the majority of energy across smart grids with backup from temperature differentials from the earth, atmosphere and new forms of batts. Good luck
What once took thousands of years to change now happening in a decade. Still will palm tree fringed rivers and lakes look that out of place in Europe?
Can't wait for that
@Sázhe M. Epifanne The Arctic System will do what it does .. Nothing I or you say can change that.
they don't make houses like they used to 300 years ago :)
Hey... I live in one .... Draughty.
People forgets that Mother Earth is a living creature, religious books are the very first scientific approach towards humans, they are a long list of warnings about natural disasters fans, if you try to read them from a modern point of view, the concept of Mercy which makes us so different from animals is about having Mercy for our planet's belly pains too, we have now all the technologies and knowledge to know what to do to preserve this huge asset ...if we want to save our planet the way it is or not
Switzerland gets about 75% of it's hydroelectric power from these glaciers and the lakes formed to engineer this. The Swiss are also deeply involved in carbon capture. But that will take decades we probably don't have.
Wow! Then why has the climate got cooler in the last 6 years?
water issues in switzerland? seems like a new opportunity for nestle, if you know what i mean
Ah yes the scum bag corporation that violates human rights in 3rd world countries
@@Uknown76 so basically it's like any other corporation on earth? what a shocker *twisting my eyes*
Great documentary, insightful and impactive narrative. Thanks and keep up with the good work.
From HK
What have they done to the Earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her.
Stuck her with knives in the side of the Dawn and
Tied her with fences and dragged her down!
50 year old lyrics and we still haven't learned.
Civilization is abhorrent to the Universe.
Wonderful (terrible) lyrics ✨I share them often x
Lies. All lies.
Stop Deforestation all over the world
Stop eating animals, it's one of the #1 causes of deforestation.
@@theveganvillainess Make sure you get your B12
@@druadhlus7693 I had my B-12 checked already and it's fine. I don't even take a supplement. I just eat nutritional yeast and other B-12 fortified foods. Also many meat eaters have B-12 deficiencies and many doctors suggest everyone, including people eating meat and dairy to take a B-12 supplement.
@@theveganvillainess Good to know.
Too many humans think they should own a solid body electric guitar but they s_ck at it. Go figure.
I live in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It's alarmingly dry here too. This was know as the rainy city.
No more glaciers access the world , yes, that scare me to death...literally. ☠
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What will be will be.There is nothing we can do.period .
You don't need to worry Frank. Its all a big ruse to generate income for the corporations.
No more aerial shots of Julie Andrews singing Edelweiss, on the high Swiss meadows, as the glaciers melt away. My heart goes out to the livestock. It's their home also. At a rate of 2 SqKm per year, that gives us approx. 35 Yrs, and even that is optimistic. 40 years have gone by since we began "warning" of climate change. Why are we so slow to understand that warnings like this, are not meant to poop on your party, but to help us all adapt for what is to come, and make time before that happens? "...Nobody wanted the party to end", says it all. And now, here we are 40yrs later, just beginning to wonder what to do about it. Oh well, better late than never. I guess? Sad Documentary, Beautiful, but sad. Thx DW. Always fine work. Please note, this Doc is 2 yrs old already.
Well said, thank you. Looking at where we at now, it’s proceeding in a devastating pace
Don't forget that the Alps are Europe's watertower too. What happens to them happens to the Po, Rhone, Rhine and Danube too.
In that way it also effects drinking water supply, logistics, food production. Besides that trans-Alp transport routes (rail)ways are in danger. It is a very major European problem that is not getting enough attention.
@@geitenkampsejos Oh My God .... were doomed
@Checkered Feather Too wet ... too dry...can't win with you
Finally one that sees the whole picture and thinks globally, not locally. I love you!
Here comes the drought. Soon they will be dry, dry, dry.
Just keep focusing on the plastic straws and plastic bags and all will be well.
You should quit your day job and do a environmental stand up comedy act! You’d rock it!
Bruce Raggett
I usually have to say this at least once a day. The climate is changing because the climate always changes. Unfortunately this time it is changing at a faster rate, like a hundred times faster.
Co2 levels control the global heating and co2 has gone up 25% in 40 years at 415 ppm vs 300 ppm in 1978. Dating with ice cores we can only find that increase over the course of millennia. Global temperatures had also taken a hundred thousand years to gradually increase/decrease by point percentages. But not today... we go through that in less than a decade.
A 2c rise in global temperature is NOT a scare tactic it is in fact a tipping point that will melt glaciers within years. And like that cube of ice in your glass melts from room temperature, when it’s gone the temperature of the liquid will also rise exponentially to room temperature. That’s the Arctic Ocean... the planets air conditioner. Arctic warms up, like it’s doing the past two years and you loose the temperature gradient that causes a reduction in pressure that keeps the jet stream alive. Once the Arctic goes so goes the planet.
We need to focus on every single thing that can make a difference because we have let this go until the last minute.
@Bruce Raggett All mountains will fall due to erosion
lets drive our cars to the indoor gym and worry about billboards warning us about the dangers of sugar
Everything will become unimaginably worse and never get better again.
experts say we are at a turning point... realists say we missed that somewhere in the 80s
Missed it in the 1960s when LBJ was going address the nation on the the subject, but didn't--Vietnam was very distracting
Which experts? You mean Greta?? I say we didnt miss anything yet
@@peepa47 by that line i refered to what is commonly encountered in mainstream media- by us not missing, do you mean like the earth is still roughly habitable?
@@peepa47 The experts in the video you're watching... But you can't miss something if you're willfully ignorant huh? Everything's normal right? Nothing to see.
This is probably the tipping point, not the turning point.
Flying from Alaska to Europe just for vacation sure isn‘t sustainable.
Flying for vacation isn’t sustainable
Agree
@@nadyagazda885 true
Glad others caught that, I was taking back by it and seeing workers combat climate change with the very machines that cause climate change.
No glaciers, means less water for the rivers in late summer. This will have far reaching effects far beyond the mountains.
Yeah ... how will I fill my pool.
Oh yeah you just hit the nail on the head. But the results will be far more disasterous. Europeans will eventually become climate refugees themselves .
@@paxwallacejazz Jesus guys .. climate has nothing to do with what will make europeans refugees ... it will be SHARIA. Their smoke screen is working well.
No more Swiss Alps skying without a massive water bill, glaciers are receding there rapidly. Humans are doing a wrong thing to Earth and we can't have a redo on this or fix it. Co2 out!
Well the coasts that we know today it will dissapear forever and the sea creatures will be able to reach the coasts more easily so no more beaches to you.
The future of snow, is the future water, the future of water is the future of life….
Future life is a future of more human caused destruction until there is nothing left anymore. We are hard wired to self destruct.
@@justdev8965 that seems to be, unfortunately, true, humans are indeed like a parasites living on it host, some do good, other do harm,, some parasites will consume it host until it kills it then move on searching for a new host, but humans are a complex form of life, and the earth is suffering from a fever, and we all know that ever living thing has its limits, like a virus, infection or cancers that keep spreading until it kill us…the earth biosphere is out of balance and the results will have dire consequences for all life, especially humans and other complex life forms, good science doesn’t lie,…
The Northern Hemisphere has been in a warming trend for 12,000 years.
@TheHealthPhysicist You are correct. The main push for many problems is the explosion of human population. Also, just the physics of melting ice... the temperature stays around the melting/freezing point until the mass of ice loses it buffering influence over the surrounding area. Example is a glass of ice water. Once the ice is nearly all melted the water temperature in the glass will quickly change to ambient room temperature. (assuming room temperature is say 70 degrees) Back in the 1860's Edward Whymper was writing about the melting glaciers in the Alps. About 12,000 years ago the warming trend began and we are still in this phase
@TheHealthPhysicist Only if you see no value to the geological record and glacial periods
Not only here but every corner of the world facing climate change which led to global warming.
['35:13'] !. ['39:21'] 'Eat, drink and be merry' without a care for the natural world in the world. Whoopee!
Deeply alarming. Yet, a lot of people are seemingly unconcerned about the effects of global warming.
So I hope that world enjoyed with this heatwave , fires and fluids
@@everythingbeautifulisfaraw1792 exactly 😞
it's called Denial
The emphasis in the world is still on growth, on expansion. Whole economic systems are based upon growth and access to ever-greater amounts of resources. This cannot continue. That is why the change at hand is so monumental, so fundamental and far-reaching.
Humanity will have to enter a different kind of paradigm, a different kind of emphasis overall that will have to be on stability and security, for you have reached the limits of what growth can produce. Excerpt from the book The New World by Marshall Vian Summers
Francois Pellicaan I’ve just been trolling most comments but yours is actually legit.
@@hatrack5977 So, then read the book :-) You can buy it or read it online for free. You have to have an open mind, but it is so worth the time and the experience.
never-ending growth. Cancer works the same way.
I think we should all quit work and grow some weed and get high
@John Cass ..is that relevant
They had more snow last winter than any ever recorded.
Anybody who ever lived anywhere it snows understands how it works. When it's warmer it snows more, and the snow is heavier and piles up thicker. When it's really cold it usually doesn't snow. If it does it's very fine flakes and light flurries that just blow around. Most heavy snowfalls happen at the beginning and end of winter, when warm fronts come in.
I drove through the MontBlanc tunnel 2 weeks ago and usually there are patches of snow on the curb even late July! This year the closest snow I could spot was 100 meters higher. Usually I make a stop after the tunnel to pitch some snowballs at my children, not possible this year! I've been traversing the Alps on holidays the last 20 years and remember the Brenner pass which is 140 meters lower having to be cleared from snow in June before my train could pass.
Once we can get our Political classes to understand that this GROWTH thing has to stop, maybe then we can do something about polution. Climate change, well, that has been going on since time began, i don't think we are going to be able to control the weather by increasing taxes.
unfortunately geo engineering will be paid for through taxes
Joe King 🤣🤣geo engineering, Chem trails?
Why when you talking about glaciers not mentioning that "studies show that solar variability has played a role in past climate changes. For example, a decrease in solar activity coupled with an increase in volcanic activity is thought to have helped trigger the Little Ice Age between approximately 1650 and 1850, when Greenland cooled from 1410 to the 1720s and glaciers advanced in the Alps". climate.nasa.gov/causes/
That's just it. It was CALLED Greenland because it once WAS green. Over the centuries, it cooled off and a massive glacier formed over most of it. Warm ocean currents from the southern oceans is what warms the British Isles and most of northern Europe. London is on the same latitude as Moosonee in Canada, and there, they get barely 2 months of summer.
Better read the science Anton, or you'll be in for a nasty shock. Anthropogenic Climate change is magnitudes bigger than solar variability. Good luck
@@jamesbonde4470 Greenland has been glaciated for hundreds of thousands of years. Not sure where you're getting your information from.
Carbon Dioxide is good for the environment, The climate always has and always will change due to our Electrical conection to our Star, and the Cosmos. The Jacobshaven Glacier is growing rapidly, as we now enter the Grand Solar Minimum. The Meridional Flow of the Jet Stream is responsible for weather extremes, not CO2 emmisions.
@richard mccann
now consider a 'Carrington' event and the damage to critical electrical infrastructure from induced massive current. How will reactors and waste be 'cooled'?
@@Allan113
We sack our politicians and stop buying into corporate junk.
@Stephan Maurer you can make a chart showing correlation between co2 and obesity, so co2 makes you fat? 😂
@Stephan Maurer appeal to consensus, appeal to authorithy.
btw my livelihood does not depend on pushing a narrative to secure government grant money. Every scientist who speaks up against climate alarmism get zero government funding.
if we get 3-4'C incrtease that will start changes leading towards fast 6'C-12'C increase due to methane release...we really don't know wehter the life on this planet will survive that change of atmospheric composition...it well might all end with that event
630 ski resorts ? oh my good God
Too many greedy and grab people for way too long have decided from the day they were born that their only mission in life was to treat life like an orange, squeezing the last drop from it irrespective of those around them and the harm done. Looks like their arrogant selfish life is about to come to a screeching halt! Loved the instructional video and thank you.
This warming has been going on for thousands of years but it is only getting noticed now? I can see the reason for taking lots of pretty college girls on a camping trip to see the glaciers. That is called science these days!
We Nepali don't Climb parabat ( Hills that receive snow in winter in Nepal above 4000 ) after tea we just make long morning walk and guess it's climbed .Recently Miss Nepal Shrinkhala Khatiwada climbed Mt Blanc 4800m above sea level after having coffee in France and she was just walking and after 4 hrs someone told her you are on the top of western Europe .And it's not a joke
Seems like u have dreamt it🤣
@Franz Huber you should try nepal, where he lives. how about 8000 mts ?? when will you ever get to see it otherwise.
Are you guys making snow stupas to conserve water? I've seen it being done in Ladakh..
@@jonc67uk Wow! That's interesting! Sometimes they are beautifully crafted, real masterpieces of art.
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Someday skiing will become a sport of the super-rich, and winter resorts will have to relocate to places in the arctic such as northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska.
Dear Dear Eartha, Im leaving you for Marsha. She is cold, distant, and mysterious but she can change. Just know its not you its me. Sincerely Mankind
What a nice letter!
For the past 20 years I have seen glaciers recede in the alps of the South Island of New Zealand. I lived there and I am not lying!!!!
I second that and made a similar comment higher up to this video. Snow line in the Alps in summer is 150-250 meters higher now than 20 years ago.
Thanks Tore. Cheers.
no it is getting colder in nz ! more snow than ever !
@@pauldrake1858 Sorry, I misread, I thought you were talking about the European Alps, but it just underlines the point.
cing: Where about's in NZ do you live?
The most problematic aspect is not mentioned: The reason there is no turning point is that snow reflect the sun, whereas the rocks absorb most of it - that is the turning point - in such a case the earth will get hotter and hotter and the snow which once trapped co2 will no longer exist & the trees that will burn from fluctuations will also release trapped co2. We well disserve it especially the arrogant people that thinks that this is natural. But I am concerned for the rest of the animal Kingdome they have no hope.
If we adopt that defeatist attitude then we truly have no hope.
Gal. The snow doesn't trap co2. The oceans absorb most of the heat from the sun. Snow reflecting light is called albido. All warming and all cooling of earth is done by the sun. None of it is caused by humans or robots or space aliens. Most of the co2 from earth's past is locked up in rock. If you take any acid and put it on limestone it will fizz, giving off co2.
@@woodspirit98 so you're a bigger expert than all the scientists and climatologists all over the world? They have been measuring CO2 and other harmful gases in the atmosphere for decades, and levels now are alarmingly high. So CO2 trapped on surfaces are not yet an issue. But they will if erratic climate conditions cause their release, just as the Siberian wildfires released copious amounts of methane etc. What is also not in dispute is that the climate is warming, with every other year nearly setting new records. And catastrophic climatic events are becoming more frequent.
@@mikeryan7213 Everything woodspring quoted is correct so you have just shown how ignorant you are. Well done!
Global temperatures have increased by 0.7 deg C inthe last 150 years it is normal for the climate to fluctuate. Globalists want to keep you in fear and have obviously succeeded.
No worries, Monsanto will invent a Cow that runs on Coca cola ?
There are still people in Switzerland like Werner Munter denying human caused climate change. Werner is a renowned and influential mountain guide who wrote the book on avalanche safety all pro mountaineers are required to read. He invented the 3x3 method of risk assessment. Deniers in Switzerland always use him as a reference. But he is not a climatologist or even a scientist. I just do not understand Werner's position as you can see the ancient levels of of the glaciers etched in the rock and marked out by the moraines. The places I used to ski in the 80's and 90' are totally unrecognisable. Change is normal, but it takes thousands of years, not decades.
Over 9000 scientists petitioned the UN to say that there is no climate emergency the earth is getting cooler but the UN has ignored them. The current alarmism is based on flawed and corrupted models and is designed to generate money for the elite. It is driven by the UN Corp started in France during the Vichy era.
well some people still believe in gods, so what?
Somehow, we've missed the glaring oxymoron, environmentally sound tourism. So a growing number of tourists are going to Slovenia off the beaten track? Pristine nature? So how do they get there? And how long will tourism allow pristine nature to survive? There is no such thing as environmentally friendly tourism - all tourism can damage the local environment, uncontrolled it damages the local society and it damages the planet's climate, causing the very problem that this whole documentary is about - did no-one making the programme see the dichotomy, the cognitive dissonance? I haven't read all the comments but I'm sure I'll not be the only one making this observation. We are watching the glaciers die today, tomorrow we'll be watching ourselves die.
Nobody wants the party to be over, sums it up
"Some people just want to watch the world burn"
-Alfred
Pistol Pete
Electricity isn’t bad inherently, more it’s where the electricity comes from.
that guy is typical.....he wants everyone else to consume less, not himself or his family. Big houses, big cars, private planes.....he is so full of crap
100% true
News flash lmao it's already in course
The end of the Alps? is definitely a top notch documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!
Fossil records reveal that atmospheric CO2 levels at Jurrasic periode around 600 million years ago were about 7,000 ppm, compared with 400 ppm in 2018. CO2 is an essential plant nutrient (1200 ppm is normal target). If CO2 in the atmosphere were ever to drop below 150 ppm, all plant life would die, we also die.
Anyone who has studied the global environmental movement has no doubt heard the term "Gaia". Gaia is a revival of Paganism that rejects Christianity, considers Christianity its biggest enemy, and views the Christian faith as its only obstacle to a global religion centered on Gaia worship and the uniting of all life forms around the goddess of "Mother Earth".
Don't worry ... they will
I hate the Alps. It should go away. What's an Alp?
There was no Arctic and Antarctic ice at dinosaur’s time.
And?
"Keeping the customer happy at all cost will release doomsday".
Can't wait until this happens. Humans need to reap what they sow. Selfish species.......
@@freddurst6204 You got a point there.
Bunch of pansies
:) you should try reality,its Real! Peter!!
@@freddurst6204 Ah, it seems I've stumbled on this Comments Section's local edgelord.
Do not become addicted to water! you'll miss it's absence.
“Who killed the world!!?”
Everyone
Switch to PEPSI !
Germany is under floods yet short of water, Nigeria is currently under flood water yet short of water, , Pakistan is currently under flood water yet India abd Pakistan are short of water abd India has monsoon every year, there's plenty of water, it's just been mismanaged and relocating itself. The climates have never been constant, whilst one area heats up another gets colder, when ice melts in one region it's growing in another. Arabian desert was once a sea abd lush green lands, climate change has always abd will always happen, islands rise abd others flood abd disappear under the waves, this is normal. The myth is that we can control it, but it makes people money so ...
It's one of the most beautiful areas in 🌏 the world. Keep it.
I don’t think it’s a choice anymore…x
Chinese will buy it up anyways who cares
The CO 2 numbers are fact. The CO 2 latency period of decades is fact. The Methane numbers are fact. The feedback loops are fact. The melting ice is fact. The ocean and land temp increases are fact. Exponential as a mathematical concept is fully understandable. Global dimming is a fact. The baseline is 1750, not 1850 and we are easily past 1.5 C and already very near 2.0; actually 4.0 in the Arctic where it really matters. There are known temperature numbers for decline and failure of agriculture which we are now flirting with. The world population continues to grow as does the use of fossil fuels. The 6th mass extinction is factually underway. Literally nothing of a meaningful nature was done 40 years ago when it mattered and nothing is being done or will be done even now when it is too late. Human beings will vanish from this planet in very short order, probably years..
Jesus mate ... don't stress. The numbers they are giving you are false. Don't drink the cool aid .. it will kill you.
What's NOT a fact is that we have anything to do with it.
The dessertfication of Europe . Pretty much sums it up. Water acquisition and purification will become critical but it will be too late.
@Pistol Pete we will all be dead before it does.
@Pistol Pete An occasional spike barely slows the now seemingly inevitable desertification. That was mentioned in the video. It was also mentioned that the wetness is less and less absorbed into the compacted soil, so it rolls off instead of staying put, and then contributes even more problems.
its been dry 2 days last 2 weeks, sorry what?
@@tyiffpeijc8702 one hot summer doesnt make a hot climate
I always look forward to dessert.
Matus Honko, Completely agree... "realists say we missed that somewhere in the 80s". I remember seeing a flyer atop the Col du Lauteret in which the Universite of Grenoble avertise a conference in the early 1990s titled "where have all the Glaciers gone?" I've bicycled all over the Alpes and Dolimiti, and the sud tirol for 30 years and the changes wrought by the climate emergency are stark. It's difficult to understand that so many people in the region are surprised. They shouldn't be. People and Planet before Profit should be the way we live. There will be plenty of jobs in a fossil free world. Don't believe the oligarchs or their agents the governments we vote into office. Last of all never forget- we can't vote our way out of this, the economic-political system is broken. It has to be citizens assemblies as the way forward. A peaceful rebellion and revolution.
Isn't it so wonderful how these young scientists can calculate how far a glacier will retreat in a minute but they can't figure out how human overpopulation brought us to where we are at today? They can't seem to connect the dots between overpopulation and sustainability - or is it that they don't want to connect the dots???
Bit more complicated than that
It's just not politically correct to talk about overpopulation, as both political parties and other groups consider it un-PC to judge other cultures on how many children they have. Look, the first thing any culture does when offered real sex ed and access to birth control is limit their children from up to 10 down to 3 or less. Then, if women are offered a way to make their own money, often with microloans, it pulls up everyone around them. Their children can go to school, they can work and earn their own money, and they have power within their family and community. One of those powers is the power to decide when, and if, she decides to have sex. When the woman in a subsistance-farming family has no income of her own, even when she does all the work, her power within the family is little.
it's not overpopulation Richard, it's hubris, GHG, and much greed
@@brianwheeldon4643 WRONG AGAIN, overpopulation is without doubt the cause of our current predicament - denying that fact is worse then denying climate change & it completely ignores simple math & physics but I know exactly why people like yourself deny OP, it has everything to do with religion, culture, tradition & human self importance over ecosystem. The human specie cannot 'evolve' past the point we are at now & it will cause the end of civilization as we know it. You are correct about hubris, GHG & greed but all those connect with OP. I am no doubt much older than you so take it from somebody with long life experience who has witnessed 'The Great Acceleration' with 2.3 billion exploding to 8 billion, overpopulation is THE PROBLEM!
@@nostarswithoutdarkness Your reply sounds more like 'irritation' with word 'overpopulation' than having an interest in solving the problem that brought us to this point? Yah, you could blame CEO's for everything but that does not satisfy as 'the root cause' for our predicament. CEO's/corporations do what they do because of 'demand', more specifically, public demand. Corporations produce 'x' amount of 'teddy bears/year' based on public demand. The CEO's didn't pollute the seven seas of the world - the public did that! You cannot disconnect the masses from the problem because 'they are the problem'! Your comment 'half of it is completely desolate' - yah, how true, and it's because that half is 'unlivable'!
Well, i wouldn't be certain of that. With climate change there will be more snow in west Europe. Gulf stream, we are waiting for google research on that to confirm it but it's going to be rough decade.
Better brace yourself Nicola... read the science is my advice then there'll be no surprises
And so many people say global warming is a myth and fake news. *screams internally*
We better start thinking about what we're going to do "when" it changes and quit buying into the idea that we can change anything. In other words, start figuring out how we're gonna deal with the effects of climate change rather than what's causing it. We can't do anything about it.
We can't avoid it but we can decide the order of magnitude. It's gonna at least be bad, but if the burn-it-and-pocket-the-loot crew are allowed to carry on then it's gonna be disastrous and potentially fatal. And I don't just mean fatal to a few million poverty stricken ignored-cos-wrong-color third worlders, I mean probable disaster to many of those who can't be arsed to complain because they're getting a new model of color telly next week.
Figure out what? How to watch and die?
@@justdev8965 Your prerogative. Some will adapt, some won't. If the human race gets stupid, none will survive. One thing's for certain, it all has an end someday. 😉 Until then, I'll live how ever I can and will most likely die before we ever notice to much of a difference at all.
@@So1ipse There's no "potentially" about it. It's gonna be fatal and, eventually, on a catastrophic scale much bigger than you describe. Eventually it will be extinction. Period. We're naive to think any different. We're just another animal on the ball for a minute and then we'll be gone like all the rest have been and will be. There is no stopping anything. We're on a ball falling through nothing in the middle of nothing. Ultimately, we're nothing but future food for a black hole. 👍
Researchers being a bunch of party-poopers, showing the real face of tourism in the Alps. Great Documentary!
You leave Alaska to find a place with rivers and mountains you can explore?? Because that's "just the kind of people" you are??? I can't watch this anymore.
Wow, another amazing documentary from Deutche Welle. Thank you for posting.
Just because some people don't believe in global warming because their daily routine remains the same, sitting in a comfy couch with cold weather and a bit of heat in summer it doesn't mean that the rest of the world are, people are dying for heat strokes, the sea level is getting higher and sea creature are reaching the coast more easily, Huracanes are going into places they never went and getting stronger, things that never happened 30 - 50 years ago and the fact that it's happening today is very concerning.
So what I'm saying with this speech is that, don't be selfish don't just think on yourself and in your comodities, look around the world and for a moment step in the shoes of other people who are feeling the climate change more straight than you.
Heart breaking man
Blah, blah, blah... Weren't the glaciers in Glacier Natl Park supposed to be gone by now according to these clowns. Yes, they were. Another example that demonstrates they don't have a clue.
thank you for bringing such issue in Europe. We see a lot of doc on Asia and not as much on Alps.
Stop having children. This world is getting ugly. Many catastrophes will be taking place from now untill years to come.
Don't have children.
Plant more 🌲 stop cutting them down for ski slopes. How many of them used there car instead of trains and busses?
Experts: We're at a turning point.
Mother Nature: You arrogant humains, you can do all studies and predictions you want, I will surprise you and strike when you expect me the least!
How were the Alps in the Medieval Warm Period? Supposedly there were foot trails clear of snow that haven’t been passable in centuries.
But still, Germany is closing their nuclear energy plants and increasing their demand on coal.
D Solis wrong. They plan to deactivate all coal plants
The tone of this docu is pity for the people yet they all enjoyed a wastefull lifestyle.
It's a pity. But it's cristal clear nobody is going to do anything. Resorts are big business and everybody knows money is more important than climate change.
@Robert Bonneaui can't say categorically if we are immerse into a global crisis or not. that depends on what each one of us understand what a global crisis is. If its economically talking maybe we are not I don't know, but form my point of view if we talk about the health of our planet we are in a global and big crisis
@@aleabogado6703 Health of our planet? It was created from the debris of an exploding star, been bombarded by meteors and comet's, for a billion years, crashed with a nother planet, was covered with vulcanos, cracked its surface to create the contents... And then still had life, it got almost extinct about 5 times in the past by massive disasters, and here you think that us pumping Co2 will destroy it, you sir have to get off your high horse, you are giving yourself to much credit, and besides everything is made from carbon, without it there is no life, plants love it the more they have it the better they grow and prosper.
@@VrecarI I'm not a scientist . im not an expert. i'm just a lawyer. But the scientists and the experts say we are living a dangerous moment. And i beleve what they say. .like when i go to the doctor i believe what he says to me. I guess also that we will have the problem because not everybody believe what the experts say. Your case.for example. Or maybe you are right and we are not facing a big problem. maybe the experts are wrong. sometimes happen. But im not going to wait until the planet melt again. i will do what i can reasonably do in order to contribute in the best positive way. Not using plastic for example
@@aleabogado6703 One thing that is certain is that scientists disagree on the matter of global warming, sadly only one side is being promoted and made easy to access to the general public, the other side is more suppressed, which deprives people of critical thinking wouldn't you agree, as a lawyer you should respect that. I really can't understand how a highly educated person like you can say i will not wait for the planet to melt, are you expecting some kind of Hollywood apocalypse and that not using plastic will help to prevent that? If you really cared about the planet, you would be against all of the fear mongering and would support that the trillions that are invested in the solar and wind energy research and for the support of its science would be redirected to helping the people in countries tha have a lack of power supply or clean water, millions die yearly because of the lack of this basic needs, to me children dying from malnutrition, dehydration or polluted water is a greater concern than supposed warming of the planet, which according to the same scientists was supposed to end in similar catastrophic events already twice in the past and freeze over, so far none of it happened. So yes i question this on the basis of no consensus from the science, but rather politics and media, and also i take in consideration that the weather that my grandparents grew up in is the same as i am experiencing now, the summers had the same temperatures and heat waves, also scares of Doom looming over them and then winters some had freezing temperatures and snow some were mild and no snow and then back to snow, needless to say no mass extinction happened or any for that matter and life continues as normal, the only difference is that there is more stuff that storms can destroy than before.
@@VrecarI i agree with you in some things but i think you areee also with me in others. On TV we see only one side. But its normal to see this side when something bad happens. If the temperature grows and we suffer a wave heat is normal if the media brings up the question of the global warming. I agree there are two sides but Im sure you agree that the big majority are on one side ( global warming and its consequences ). I know its impossible that we return back to the Stone Age . Thats why i said that we , every person can do at least something to prevent it, i can be not using plastic, it can be using public transportation it can be whatever but something. of course you can't change drastically your whole life. i need a car to go to work most of the time i can't stop working. But i dont need to use plastic bags when i go to the supermarket for example. then i try to do small things whiteout changing my whole life.
The other question that you bring up is for me as important or more than the climate change but not incompatible . I think we have means to fight against the hunger in the world and to help people who are suffering a lot and thats not incompatible with the necessity of fighting against the global warming.
By the way sorry for my English. Reading you is a pleasure . I hope you understand what i mean whith my poor English level. have a nice weekend
Currently it's political suicide for any politician to bring the topic up but eventually population control will become required. There is no chance of actual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with the rampant corruption involved with the recycling industry and corporate greed in big oil production. Once the tundra in northern Canada and Russia starts releasing it's stored methane things will go from bad to worse very quickly. I also find it amazing that large scale construction of cisterns to store meltwater hasn't yet begun.
Richard Anderson
Those peat fires are expected to burn under ground for years... all million square miles of it. That tundra methane should be releasing at large scale over the course of that time. Co2 levels will easily hit 450-475 ppm and global temps at 2c by 2023 and we will see an Arctic blue ocean event by 2021. The year to watch out for is 2022... loss of jet stream, chaotic weather patterns and worldwide crop failure. Once the announcement of the exponential rise in co2, we will have panic and violence. So we may not suffer from starvation we might just murder ourselves from civil unrest instead.
We have millions of lakes that store fresh water already. The Great Lakes could supply North America for 100’s of years.
That is interesting. The Alps got over 18 meters more snow this winter than in 2017 and 2018. I wander what data are these film makers are reading???
The Facts Are.
If they're wrong the people can stay.
*If You're Wrong Many Will Die.*
Even if wrong their being precautious Outweighs your saying that they're wrong. NOW!
*Who Cares How Much Snow Fell When The Mountains Are Crumbling Down?*
You think the snow will stop the mountain from crumbling?
In Switzerland they have been measuring the edge of glaciers since 1940, marking the edge every 5 years. There has been continuous loss of Glaciers over that time. Glacier National Park in NW USA had 150 Glaciers in 1915 -- today there are 26 Glaciers left..
They addressed that...
@Steven Strain
Evidently you think you said something intelligent!
Start speaking about 2050 or even 2030. Other use, nobody will care!
Same thing happening in Southern California in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains. I have been skiing in these mountains for 30+ years and remember back in the 80's there would be lots of snow cover, long seasons from November to April. Man made snow was just an afterthought. The 3100m peaks would be snow covered for 6-7 months out of the year. Now a few areas rely just on natural snow and unfortunately they are open maybe 2-3 weeks out of the year for skiing, if at all some winters. All of the resorts sit at a base altitude of 2,000 +/- m and reach a height of 2,700m. The larger areas now rely 100% on man made snow.
Exactly. So many deniers but idk why when you can just look around. The ski resorts in my area have also been limping along for about 10 yrs at least and we (used to be) known for legendary snowfalls. People can't get rid of their winter toys quick enough.
Even if the silver lining is less pain in ther ass snow & cold, it's not working out that way either. Instead of just a becoming a warmer climate to enjoy, it's been extremely unpleasant. Invasive plants killing our trees like crazy, harmful insects spreading diseases more, extreme temp changes, etc. It's not like the northeast is becoming some warm, pleasant paradise; it's becoming hell. Ecoli is flourishing in the fresh water.
I knew something was changing when the Canadian geese began to stay winters. Now half of them stick it out because it's not as harsh, in some ways at least. The deer are rutting late, causing weird birthing times.
I worry about what will happen in another 10 years. These invasive plants are strangling native plants too quickly. Crops are not looking as good. And the fresh water quality... ugh... I wouldn't let my pets drink it, it's gotten so bad.
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@@RR-on4sk Don't worry, when the Donald gets elected again he will make your winters great again😮
People in power aren't doing anything ..then they think common man should do something but they itself will do nothing
So,people FLY from Canada,which has rivers and mountains,to Slovenia,which has rivers and mountains?
Yeah, it's ridiculous tbh. We need to outgrow this idiotic tourism for the sake of tourism
Alaska's in the USA; but yeah, fair point.
As far as CO2 is concerned, we have almost too little. Plants won't grow without it.
They conflate C02 with pollution. C02 is NOT a pollutant. Not to mention that it's only a very small percentage of air. In the Americas, we had mega fauna, giant beasts, mastodons, sabre tooth tigers, hogs the size of rhinos. They used up a lot of oxygen but also gave out lots of C02 and methane. They all died off, ALL of them and we had nothing to do with that.
Catastrophic events from outside the solar sustem are known to have occurred. What of them? What of higher solar energy from the sun?
co2 is rising because we cut down all plantlife
Welcome to the Grand solar minimum. Your food is about to go up 4x.
hey at least the mountains in Europe still have tops on them, unlike ours in usa
Lol climate change
The earth has a heat pump cooling system that uses water as it’s planetary refrigerant. The earth receives more energy from the sun then it can radiate off. Water absorbs heat , changes form to gas and rises to the upper atmosphere. Once up in the upper atmosphere water changes form from gas to liquid or solid and in the process gives off the heat it carried up there from the surface of the earth. At the same time it becomes sub cooled by the coldness of the upper atmosphere and then falls back to earth as a solid or a liquid carrying extra cooling power to the earth. Remember, it is easily about -65 to -85 up there. If you have flown in a jet you know it colder than the poles up there. No wonder when record heat lifts records amounts of water up there, it comes down in record amounts of cold temperatures and snow falls. Sadly, most of the time, it misses the ski areas and falls where people wish it would not. This is why global warming is so misunderstood when it produces cold record temperature events as well as record heat events somewhere on earth.
To say that the earth is just going to burn up or just rise in temperature is like saying when you start your car, that the engine is just going to experience engine warming until it burns up. No , it has a cooling system. With hotter temperatures, the cooling system will work that much harder and faster. So fast that no matter whether nature or man changes the composition of the air to retain heat, it will cool the Earth maintaining a overall temperature that life needs to be here. If it couldn't life would have ended long ago on this planet. This is why in many areas are seeing record floods and snows as other areas are seeing record heat. Usually while one hemisphere of the earth is having record heat, the other is experiencing record cold. When you know how a Automobile engine works you know what it should be doing. When you understand how a planet works, you know what it should be doing. The international Council on climate change should upgrade it’s Current climate model to one that includes water as a planetary refrigerant that carries heat from the surface to the upper atmosphere and the coldness of space down from the upper atmosphere to the planet. In other words, the earth heat pump cooling system model that uses water as its refrigerant. Does any of your scientists have any practical experience in Refrigeration and HVAC engineering ? If not, this will probably not make sense to them. In other words, if you don't know how your refrigerator or heat pump works, than learn about phase change and latent heat before you read more. You just won't get it. However....load calculations on a skyscraper or airframe can be applied to planet bodies , but that is for any one who cares to write me. or even read this....is there anyone,...Out there? (the Wall)
So the good news is our planet will not just burn up or have run away heat rise. The bad news is, it will oscilate from heat events to cold events very quickly. As heat lifts water up in routinely great amounts, it means the same great amount of water will come down producing big cold events not just in winter but in the summer too. As global warming goes on this will be every year, all the time, year after year season after season. No longer will ideas like "storm of 100 or 1000 years have any meaning. Those that look to record cold snowy events as evidence there is no global warming don’t know they are looking in fact at evidence of global warming.
And speaking of things people look at and don’t see, let’s talk about a more insulated atmosphere. A more insulative atmosphere is like putting a thicker blanket all around the earth. This means that the earth's core cannot radiate it’s heat as fast as it used to and heat is retained inside the earth. This retained heat will melt ever increasing amounts of rock. This melted rock will rise up to the surface as increased volcanic and earthquake activity. It is like a giant thunder cloud of molten rock rising up to the surface to give off the heat from the core to our surface, the one we stand on. Maybe the international climate change model should include this in its new heat pump cooling model? I think it should and I have a UA-cam video that you can find if you type “flow tectonics”.
When you see all these glaciers melt and yet the seas don’t rise, this is because all that water is in the air carrying heat from our surface to up to the upper atmosphere and the coldness of space down to our surface instead of causing sea rise as predicted. Any questions? Email me at johnathanjonesbiofuels@Gmail.com
Interesting. Thank your for sharing.