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  • Doesn't work on safari
    by deviner7575
  • Weird seeing this posted as I’m up in Alaska right now viewing glaciers and being sad about how much they’ve receded.
    by dawnerd
  • Just checked the Glacier Blanc in the Massif des Écrins. The map's glacier vector perimeter is completely wrong : the glacier has retreated hundreds of meters already.

    I hope this is just a map thing, and not the base for these predictions :/

    by maelito
  • Okjökull is considered extinct, yet according to this website it should survive until the 2070s at least? It also gives 2079 for 1.5°C vs. 2075 for 2.7°C (I know that the local dynamic is not the same as the global one, but still).
    by mbty
  • There was an episode of Northern Exposure where an entire frozen mammoth was exposed. Before the main character could report this amazing find to anyone to be preserved in a museum one of the locals dragged it to house and butchered it for steaks.
    by ourmandave
  • I don't understand why a glacier would survive longer in the 4°C scenario than 2.5°C but this seems to suggest so.
    by a1371
  • Reviewed this and it is quite impressive. The map adds much more reality to the data as opposed to regular climate maps. The one feature that I think would be awesome to add would be an interactivity layer to the bottom-right panel indicating the extinction years where you can click or hover over the warming period to view the affected glaciers on the map and their numbers.
    by rearview
  • In 2004, I visited New Zealand. It was my first international trip as part of a 6 week long geology field camp. One of the coolest experiences was getting to visit the Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier on the South Island.

    Checking this out, I don't see the Fox Glacier or Franz Josef Glacier specifically listed in the search field, but moving the map around, I was able to find the ice fields.

    I see that they both will "survive" to 2100, but I wonder in what state. Check out this time lapse video from 2013 to 2018 showing the Franz Josef Glacier's drastic retreat! [3]

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Glacier

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Glacier

    [3] https://youtu.be/LUs_20kRHDw?si=k1nJB2z_kn8T--uT&t=17

    by davely

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