Thursday, October 29, 2015

Climate, the record heat has “split” in the three largest Italian glacier – TGCOM

– Because of the heat record registered in 2015, the largest valley glacier Italian was split into three glaciers smaller . Not only that: by 2100 the giant furnaces, located on the Lombard side of the Stelvio National Park, is likely to disappear almost completely. This was revealed by the “New register of Italian glaciers” , a “registry” of complex snowy perennial updated for the last time in the sixties.



Climate, the record heat has & quot; split & quot; three largest Italian glacier

The report, conducted by the University of Milan, was presented during meeting “Fever ice” organized in the House of Representatives by the Parlimentary climate Globe Italy. Over the last 26 years Italian glaciers of the Central Alps have lost two trillion liters of water , equal to 800 thousand Olympic swimming pools and four times the Lake Trasimeno.

The glaciers are in Italian 903 for a total area of ​​370 square kilometers. Lombardy, Valle d’Aosta and Alto Adige are the regions “glaciated”: the first is the region with most glaciers (230) and the Valle d’Aosta is the one with the larger glacial area ( 134 km square).

The data on the surface of the 903 glaciers Italian “confirm a general declining trend “: a reduction of 40% (from 519 to 368 square kilometers) in the last 50 years, which is added a further decline of 5% from 2007 to 2012. lost glacier surface is equal to the extension of Lake Como and is due to the shrinking of glaciers and the extinction of nearly 200 complex.

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