Alpine glacier retreat pushing Europe closer to water crisis | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Project director David Volken says that between 1996 and 2006, 0.9 billion cubic metres of water have melted from the glaciers yearly. He expects that until 2050, runoff from glaciers will increase, but then rapidly drop towards the end of the century.[Flashback to yesterday] - Mountain snowfalls quell Swiss summer
"Because of the warming climate, snow melt will happen about a month earlier and rainfall will decrease 10 to 15 percent in summer," Volken adds.
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The glaciologist [Matthias Huss] admits that there are large uncertainties. "However," he says, "what's for sure is that glaciers will shrink massively. Even in an unlikely best-case climate scenario, glaciers will lose more than 70 percent of their size until the end of the century." And in the worst case? "There wouldn't be any glaciers any more at all."
A cold front bringing low temperatures and snowfalls in the Alps has interrupted summer in Switzerland.
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