Switzerland's melting glaciers: 'Climate change in action'

As glaciers in the Alps melt due to climate change, the ice is revealing its secrets.

Sky's Siobhan Robbins has this report from Switzerland.

#Climate #Alps #Switzerland #climatechange

[nargaroth_]

People cant predict what weather will be tomorow but can predict what weather will be in 2090.

[chrisenmarch]

So 2000 years ago there was no ice there as it’s revealing a Ronan track ??

[malicant]

We better pay more tax! That'll freeze 'em right back up!

[circomnia]

01:46 Wait...so....2000 years ago there was no snow and ice? Just apparently roads built by Romans? So isn't the glaciers just finally receding to normal? Maybe we're just recovering from a really cold period over the last 2000 years.

[jono]

So the ice has melted back to where it was 50yr ago?

[Admodeus]

Why was there no ice there 2000 years ago? She didn't explain that.

[johnpatrick]

So it was iced over for only 2, 000 years? The planet is 4.5 billion years old.

[andyholmes]

So if a plane and a roman road are now visible, surely that means the glaciers go through cycles? Or did the Romans cause global warming too?

[benscrwbiutb]

Glaciers started melting thousands of years ago. Since road was made when area was warmer, It’s obvious 2000 years ago there was no glacier there then. Planet was too warm for glacier to form 2000 years ago. Why would anyone think it’s unusual for glacier to be melting now when they know it didn’t exist in the past?

[typhoon]

So in 1960s the glacier was is the same situation as now. How else did the plane get in the ice.

[johnpatrick]

Florida used to be underwater and it probably will be again someday. I don't think man can change it.

[nchance]

I live in Alaska, we had the coldest and most snow intense winter we have seen in decades.

[LogicPTK]

Roman path was clear 2000 years ago, so we have seen great cooling since then, I don't think it was uninhabitable back then lol

[alastairjhunter]

The earth climate has been changing for 3, 000, 000, 000 years. This will continue for another 3, 000, 000, 000 years (or until the earth moves outside our suns “Goldilocks” zone) and nothing we can do will change this.

[captainireland]

Went to Switzerland on a scout trip back in 2017 to a scouting centre in a town called "kandersteg", we climbed up the mountains and seen photos of glaciers when we were there and it was crazy, where the ice was only about 5-6ft deep had been over 100ft deep in 2008

[johnpatrick]

In 2007 Al Gore and his science cult members told us the arctic will have no summer ice by 2013. Still waiting but wrong like every other prediction as usual.

[peterjones]

In the 1600's there were religious processions to stop the glaciers advancing.
Around 900 years ago temperatures there were MUCH HIGHER THAN NOW.
This is all normal long term variability.

[cthrel]

Thank goodness the Romans banned SUV's or we would have no ice to melt

[paulsehstedt]

5, 900 years ago there were no glaciers in the Alps at all, scientist from the University of Bern are claiming in different studies. 1:17: The water from the glaciers is not important for the whole of Europe, just for the countries, where it runs through.

[youtubearmy]

How is it not possible the earth just cycles between a frozen ball and a water world over millions of years...maybe we're just witnessing a small part?