Global warming: Iceland is a memorial writing the future “We knew what was going on”

The first of Iceland's 400 glaciers to disappear from the cause of the climate crisis will be commemorated through a plaque and under a grim warning of the future by local scientists and residents this month.

The former Okyol glacier, which before a century covered 5.8 hectares] of the mountainous surface west of western Iceland and which had a height of 50 feet [50 m], was melted with nearly 1 hectare and lost 15 feet [15 m] of thickness and thus lost its icelike status, broadcast Periscopi from The Guardian.

In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same route,” says the plaque, in Icelandic and English. This monument is to show that we knew what was going on and what we should do. Just so you know we knew. ”

The memorial holds the August 2019 date and also holds the words “415 ppm CO2”, referring to record levels of 415 parts of carbon dioxide measured in the atmosphere May of this year.

The glacier is defined as a persistent mass of compact ice that accumulates more ice measures during winter than it loses during summer and moves steadily under its weight. When this does not happen, the remains are known as the dead “acle”.

In all, the plaque says so:

“Ok [Okykull Short] is Iceland's first glacier that lost its ice-like status. In the next 200 years, the same holds for other glaciers. This monument is to admit that we knew this was happening and we knew what we had to do. You know if we made it. ” /Periscope