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[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At least we got some space to build car centric suburbia, eh? /s

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 21 points 3 days ago (8 children)

More room to pollute! 🥳🥳🥳

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

A reverse image search revealed to me that there are a hell of a lot of copies of this image around the internet, but I can't seem to find any papers that provide background. I'm going to have to look again later, but if there's any other internet sleuths out there interested in figuring out the origins of these photos with reputable explainers, I would love to know more about this.

I'm always afraid of things like this that seem to confirm my biases without associated information to back it...

[–] philz@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I just did reverse image search and found this article from 2002

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 days ago

The Guardian article nailed it, thanks!

It doesn't cite exactly where they got the Greenpeace photo from, but I found it here: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Climate-Impact-Documentation-in-Norway--Svalbard-27MZIF4WNED.html

Climate Impact Documentation in Norway, Svalbard Greenpeace documentation showing that glacier "Blomstrandbreen" has retreated nearly 2 km since 1928, with an accelerated rate of 35 metres lost per year since 1960 and even higher in the past decade. In the image, view of climate campaigner Truls Gulowsen on a speed boat going to a mine in Longyearbyen. 

Unique identifier: GP0STSCL6  Shoot date: 03/08/2002  Locations: Norway, Scandinavia, Svalbard Credit line: © Greenpeace / Christian Åslund 

A bit more from the Guardian article:

Greenpeace activists visited the glacier last weekend on the Rainbow Warrior taking pictures from the same locations to highlight the effects of global warming, which the group says is a threat to the future of the planet.

The Blomstrandbreen glacier has retreated by one and a quarter miles since 1928, according to Greenpeace. It was shrinking by 115ft a year in the 1960s, a rate which has risen.

Recent studies carried out by US researchers and reported in Science last month said that 85% of the glaciers they examined had lost vast portions of their mass in the last 40 years.

Keith Echelmayer of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, who has carried out research into Alaska's ice streams and checked glacier thickness, said: "Most glaciers have thinned several hundred feet at low elevation in the last 40 years and about 60 feet at higher elevations."

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a couple similar photos from 2022 posted to Reddit by the same photographer (meaning the same person posted these two, not that it's necessarily the same person who posted the one above):

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That…. Is fucking tragic. There’s no going back to that. Ever.

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Don't worry, the ice will come back, we just won't be around to see it.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure it was at the same time? Did the account for leap seconds?

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

It's in TAI timezone

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

people 107 years ago loved sepia filters.

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 12 points 3 days ago

Revenge of the Titanic.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 127 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Facebook comments: Well obviously it was taken in the SUMMER 😂🤣😆 Morons global warming is all fear mongering!

Yes Jim. It's very normal that entire glaciers disappear, regularly in fact, every year. You are so smart, much smarter than all of the scientists who are panicking.

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ummm…. There’s people right here on lemmy saying the same dumb shit about summer. Don’t think for a second that lemmy doesn’t host some of the exact same idiots Facebook does.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good news is that many instances on Lemmy are less tolerant to alt-right trolls and climate deniers. Best to use that report function so your admins, or even better, their admins, can snipe them.

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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 86 points 3 days ago (1 children)

crazy to think that guy has been on that boat for over 100 years

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

He clearly switched boats.

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[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago

Thanks, emissionschads!

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank goodness they cleared out all that snow and ice so that we can finally see the pretty mountains.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago (6 children)

We should put some factories there!

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

yeah but it's much more colorful now. that's good, isn't it?

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