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"Published on 20 Nov 2015

Glacier collapsing in Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand caught by photographer Ryan Taylor during a ski mountaineering trip. I also captured a series of ice the size of several buildings falling off the Hochstetter Ice Fall below Mt Cook (highest peak in NZ). Similar events are naturally occurring several times a day (at 13 seconds in the video you can see a similar, smaller collapse in the background of the video) but it is evident climate change is causing glaciers to recede at an unprecedented rate. New Zealand’s 1st ski area was once located on the Ball glacier below Mt Cook which is now covered in rock debris. I assume with increasing average temperatures we are seeing more melting and consequently an increasing ratio of rainfall to snowfall in the accumulation areas of glaciers. It is important to raise awareness around climate change at this time with the international conference on climate change in Paris coming up. For those who don’t care about the glaciers disappearing it has potential to effect economies through loss of tourism and means less water available for irrigation."

As a humble realist, I'd like to point out that:

1 - Glacier? only if every accumulation of Snow and Ice atop a mountain is a Glacier, in this video it is clear that it's a snow/ice field well up a mountain and nowhere near a melt line.

2 - Climate Change/Global Warming? surely the ice and snow should be retreating under such a scenario, what we see here is clearly the ice and snow advancing and bulldozing rock, vast quantities of rock, out of the way. This is more snow and ice, not less.

Impressive video but crap commentary

 

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