Loonybird eco-freaks in Switzerland hold glacier funeral

[make speed limit 45]

I'll take climate change seriously when the celebs give up their private jets and not until then.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/europe/swiss-glacier-funeral-intl-scli/index.html

sep 22 2019 (CNN)Hundreds of people held a funeral and paid respects to a Swiss glacier that is disappearing as temperatures climb.

Pizol glacier in the Glarus Alps, eastern Switzerland, stands at an altitude of about 2,700 meters, and has lost 80-90% of its volume since 2006, leaving behind 26,000 square meters of ice -- less than four football fields -- said Matthias Huss, a glacier specialist at ETH Zurich university.

The glacier, which has been monitored since 1893, will be the first to be taken off the Swiss glacier surveillance network, according to Huss.

Around 250 people gathered Sunday to hike up to the glacier, where a local priest gave a speech to commemorate the retreating ice, said Alessandra Degiacomi, coordinator of the Swiss Association for Climate Protection and organizer of the funeral march.

"We want to have a CO2 neutral Switzerland from 2050," Degiacomi told CNN. "We want to decarbonize the country."

 

[marvin martian]

I'll take climate change seriously when the celebs give up their private jets and not until then.

I'm planning to defrost my chest freezer this weekend, I'll be sure to let the Swiss media know in case they want to have a wake.