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‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of photos that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers.

Duncan Porter, a software developer from Bristol, posted photos that were taken in the same spot at the Rhone glacier in August 2009 and August 2024. The white ice that filled the background has shrunk to reveal grey rock. A once-small pool at the bottom, out of sight in the original, has turned into a vast green lake.

“Not gonna lie, it made me cry,” Porter said in a viral post on social media platform X on Sunday night.

volodya_ilich ,

Everyone in this sub agrees that climate change is a disastrous event, and that we’re not doing enough. But as soon as you suggest changing to a system that actually may do something against it, you guys drop the t-word like there’s no tomorrow.

Burn_The_Right ,

What’s the t-word?

Is it titties? It’s titties, isn’t it?

Pacattack57 ,

Tendies

superkret ,

No, it’s Testosterone

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

My dad thinks climate change is a scam and “someone 8s making a lot of money from it”

My dad also laments that the local lake doesn’t freeze over like it did when he was a teenager, DRIVING on top of it with his brothers.

Totally unrelated to climate change though. Cause that’s totes fake.

Also storms are more violent and frequent, winters are basically spring 2.0 now and the local river has flooded way past historic levels and could threaten the downtown area of their city within the decade.

But all that is SOOOOOOO unrelated.

jubilationtcornpone ,

The cognitive dissonance is so strange to me. I’m a native Cheesehead and it’s a well documented fact that ice fishing season in Wisconsin is quickly getting shorter and shorter due to the higher winter temperatures.

Maybe it’s a branding issue. What if we start referring to “climate change” as “demise of ice fishing” or “imminent collapse of the snowmobile industry”?

P1nkman ,

imminent collapse of the snow industry

That should make the tourism industry get their lobbying straight.

deleted ,

While I think climate change is a real issue and we need to do something about it, I can see the rationale behind your dad’s thoughts and childhood memories.

Is the planet getting hotter is one thing and was it caused by humans is another thing.

finestnothing ,

He is partially right - there are people making a lot of money from climate change… Or at least from causing it

remer ,

There is clearly a catastrophic amount of melting but the perspective, both angle and zoom, exaggerate the melting here. The older photo is more zoomed in and has the mountains higher in the frame. That gives the anti-environmental people something to work with to attempt to discredit the melting.

BrikoX ,
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More likely, it was just taken on 2 different devices. It’s reasonable that the camera or phone they owned changed in 15 years.

Tiresia ,

I put together this gif for a side-by-side comparison. The picture was taken from a slightly different location, so it’s not perfect, but the difference is obvious.

MagicCuboid ,

Chasing Ice remains a terrific documentary that clearly showed all of this happening 15 years ago.

humbletightband ,

They obviously took one picture in the summer and one in the winter… 😒 But enjoy your antifa money 🤣🤣🤣

Hawk ,

Not sure if this is supposed to be a joke comment or just weird.

Tikiporch ,

August 2009 and August 2024, but enjoy your… I don’t even know? MAGA money?

Petah, what kind of money do users who suck the dicks of oil companies like?

humbletightband ,

Covered in cum presumably

Danterious ,

But enjoy your antifa money 🤣🤣🤣

You know you are on an anarchist instance right?

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en

humbletightband ,

I tried to reference them

lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/12480741

Danterious ,

Oh I didn’t see that before. Ok I find the joke funny.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en

Tikiporch ,

Damn, son. You’re a masochist.

Waldowal ,
@Waldowal@lemmy.world avatar

No way I’m taking bribes from “Big Antifa”!

Timely_Jellyfish_2077 ,

We are fucked.

SlopppyEngineer ,

Reminds me of an economist who was telling everyone that a few degrees of climate change would barely cost 1% of economic growth so it would not be an issue at all. The climate scientists replied that at -4°C there was a mile of ice at the spot he was sitting and you would think that this would surely affect the economy, and that +4°C would have similar results.

LibreHans ,

The earth changes?! How dare it!?

Skua ,

I doubt anyone here actually needs to hear it, but just in case: the problem is that we're changing it, and we're changing it for the worse

catloaf ,

Also, we’re changing it far too quickly for everything else to keep up.

nautilus ,

Yawn. Same old talking points.

Imperor ,
@Imperor@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t worry. Some people I know can still go skiing, so clearly it’s all fake and a non-issue.

Plopp ,

I’ve seen a guy hold a snowball on TV. We’re fine.

veganpizza69 ,
@veganpizza69@lemmy.world avatar

In case you have felt the world be a little lighter recently, he died a month ago: lemmy.world/post/17387694

Fisch ,
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I’m sure a lot of the comments on other platforms would say something along the lines of “They obviously took one picture in the summer and one in the winter… 😒 But enjoy your antifa money 🤣🤣🤣”

pHr34kY ,

I tried to do the same thing at Franz Josef glacier earlier this year. I didn’t even get the glacier in shot.

Wanderer ,

Is that the one that says “the glacier may look like this [picture] in 2100 if global warming keeps happening” and the glacier is noticeably more receded than that?

nilaus ,

Yes. Was there 7 years ago and it had already receded way past the 2100 pic.

JimmyMcGill ,

Fuck that’s depressing

If only all the scientists could have predicted all of this. Maybe even tried to warn us about it and write it in signs.

Stupid scientists…

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot ,

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