The Marmolada glacier, the largest of the Dolomites, has dried up, lost even 7 meters thick, and it is split into two areas, in two languages, so that the province of Trento wants to run for cover, covering large sheets to protect it from the work of the devastating sun and high temperatures. Copying, in this, what has made the company Funivie Marmolada, by securing a few patches of ice where the trail descends from the tip Rocca. Environmentalists, however, already recite the De Profundis.
“The fate is already sealed, in 10 years, a maximum of 20″ dares Luigi Casanova, spokesman of the confederation Cipra, “the mass has melted, we will have the whole rock.” Because no hope? The drastic reduction in the thickness brought out 7 meters of rock, Punta Penia and Punta Rocca, but especially by the Eleven and Sasso Sasso of 12.
“The rock heats up and acts as a radiator,” says Casanova . “A radiator leading to melting of the ice. We should cover sheeting these peaks, but it would be really ridiculous. ” Snow if it is seeing very little down. Compared to 19 meters of the winter 2013/2014, the share fall this year has not come to 7 meters and the high temperatures of summer have struggled to dissolve it.
Yesterday, the presentation in Rome of cadastre areas icy Italian was presented as an absolute novelty that from the end of August 2015, the largest valley glacier Italian the “giant” of the Ovens, in the Stelvio National Park, is no longer unitary but was split into three with a continuous collapse of its sector lower. But the Marmolada is already history, in this sense, because it has already visutto the similar phenomenon. The outlook is not at all reassuring. The analysis of volumetric changes occurred in the last 26 years – since 1981 – showed a release water from our glaciers, considering only those of the Central Alps, at 2000 billion liters, the equivalent of 800,000 Olympic swimming pools .
The new register of Italian glaciers was illustrated yesterday in the House of Representatives by the Parlimentary climate Globe Italy, which was attended by, among others, Stella Bianchi, President intergroup climate Globe Italian, Claudio Smiraglia and Wilhelmina Diolaiuti, University of Milan, Department of Earth Sciences (the Scientific Organizing Committee of the Italian Alpine Club), Umberto Martini, president general of the Italian Alpine Club, and representatives of other associations. The data ranges of the most recent Inventory of glaciers Italian substantially confirm an overall declining trend. Since the sixties of the twentieth century to the first decade of the twenty-first century there has been a reduction of the distribution area 30% (from 527 sq km to 370 sq km), which is added a further decline of 5% from 2007 to 2012. The glacier surface is lost comparable to that of Lake Como and is due not only to the shrinking of glaciers but the complete extinction of 200 devices.
“The constant updating of the Cadastre” explains Smiraglia “in the short term will include the critical issues of the Italian Alps and related degradation of glaciers. For filling in the Land Registry, the researchers observed profound changes that may have considerable implications on environmental hazard and risk also in terms of hydrogeological. Future scenarios of glacial Italian, based on climate resulting from climate models suggest that a reversal of the trend in progress is unlikely and that in a few decades it could provide an additional approach to an Alpine landscape, more like the Pyrenees and the Apennines, almost devoid of glaciers, which seems the inevitable fate of the mountains of the future. “
According to the president of General Cai, Umberto Martini, we must defend itself from these effects by supporting the efforts that the UN conference in Paris in December Cop21 will be made to identify the individual commitment, binding
to all states and to all peoples, to contain within the limits of 2 degrees C warming of our planet.
“The Cai is engaged with the other 80 associations of the world to keep climbing the mountain and frequentabile livable.”
Francesco Dal Mas
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