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Global Glacier Extinction Explorer(glacierextinction.com)
51 points by guillego an hour ago | 9 comments
Aditya_0315 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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.

mbty 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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).

a1371 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

Perz1val 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

Water has the highest density at 4°C, but I have no idea how that'd relate

maelito 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 :/

mitxela 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We chose this and we're still choosing it right now.

encomiast 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This does seem to be the result of human activity. But I'm not really sure how the words 'we' and 'choose' work in a sentence like that. The collective of humanity doesn't really make choices the way I understand that word. And, while individual citizens make choices that contribute to this, and business people and politicians make choices that prioritize the short-term over the long term, it's not really correct to say they prefer and therefor choose the climate change. It seems like we don't have a good vocabulary for talking about the cumulative results of small choices.

alangibson 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Agree. It's been my position for a while that we've de facto decided to do nothing to prevent warming and we'll just live with the consequences.

snthd 3 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The maximum category is "Survives through 2100". Not great, not terrible.