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7 Shocking Photos Reveal What 100 Years Of Climate Change Has Done To Arctic Glaciers
In the early 1900s, Arctic glaciers were nature's most mysterious and undiscovered wonders. Over 100 years of research, exploration, and exploitation later, the glaciers have become a haunting testament to the global warming effects.
Christian Åslund, a Swedish photojournalist who works with Greenpeace, gathered some early photos of glaciers ice in Svalbard, Norway from the Norwegian Polar Institute, and juxtaposed them next to his own photos of the same locations from 2002. The differences in these before and after photos were unbelievable. He's using the photo series to promote #MyClimateAction, a National Geographic campaign encouraging discussion about climate change and as a protest against Norwegian oil companies drilling in the melting ice in the Arctic region.
See each troubling comparison below, and sign Save The Arctic's petition against Arctic oil here, in hopes of stopping the devastating consequences of global warming.
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keumonyou 8 years ago
Newsflash, time changes things. Those ice will melt no matter what we tweet. End of story.
Melody Reid 8 years ago
In the early 1900's we were in a mini ice age. We are no longer in one.
Aedhan McGee 8 months ago
and whys that its climate change time breaks things but we speed it up
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Aedhan McGee 8 months ago
with the ice melting the sea level will rise bye like 8 matures ( doesn't seem like a lot but look up the consicunses ) imagine a place at the beach that's 1 M deep add 8 to that and the extra makes other places deeper too its bad a huge amount of costal city's will floud and never unfloud because that's the oceans new water leval believe me or keep helping make are world die ( and yes I now I spelt some stuff wrong but I'm new to English ) and most of my big words got autocorrected but what im saying is true surch it up if you don't believe me
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Koko Sempai 8 years ago
I think you need to show these to the presidents and prime ministers around the world :P
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chris wilson 6 years ago
taken pictures in winter for first one summer in second what a fake scare mongering knobs
Gregg Esenwine 6 years ago
If white people had not come to North America the world would be pristine, no factories, roads, cars. Only Indian tribes, of course a few tribes would want to dominate all but that is another topic.
Ed Ledoux 3 years ago
The natives burned killed and raped the land then moved and repeated this.... get a grip. White man saved the planet from the savages
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chris wilson 6 years ago
if they stop sending up rockets testing bombs the axis of the earth would stableise and this c**p would nt happen get real
Aedhan McGee 8 months ago
" yer domb " that's not all most people who post on here are giving domb ansesrs and that one rasest guy calling natives savages it whoudent surprise me if he's a neo nazzie
Load More Replies... Sheetal Hatkar 8 years ago
Right hand side mountain with three strips of snow... Hahaha same as 100yrs before. Fake!!
Aedhan McGee 8 months ago
not fake. use yer small chicken brain here for a sec. ever think that there's a groove that chout the snow that's a dame mountain made of rock you domb a*s
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DisneyworldFAN 8 years ago
Woah! Most of the snow turned into water? We need to work on this problem!
Brie Hoffman 8 years ago
Wow, you people who believe in Global Warming are so gullible. One picture is close up and the other further away!
Aedhan McGee 8 months ago
you doofas your actually domb get your head out of your a*s and do some god dame research ( sorry god you have to deal with idiots like him )
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get in 8 years ago
The planet is aging, just like we are, it won't be here forever. Take a young child and look at it again in 40 years, did you expect it to NOT grow older and eventually die? Nothing lasts forever......
Bertrand Russell 5 years ago
But this isn't a natural process like a child aging and the process is sped up because of humans releasing too much Co2 into the atmosphere.
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Hanna Rinta-Mänty 8 years ago
Incredibly sad. My boys are 4 and 7 years. What kind of struggles they will have to face in their adulthood Because of our creedines!???
Ed Ledoux 3 years ago
None. You have a less ice infested planet teaming with flora and fauna. What else can you blame your failures on is up to you. This aint one
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Abi Hitchcock 8 years ago
It would have been interesting to see photos a hundred years apart during the last ice age....
Paula Cottrell 8 years ago
This is obviously FAKE NEWS though created by new age green radicals photoshopping to try and bring down the not for profit fossil fuel companies which deliver the only true source of energy available for our society.
Aedhan McGee 8 months ago
like are you domber then a newborn baby?????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its real I don't want electric cars and stuff but dis shite is real
Load More Replies... teddee 8 years ago
Would someone please forward these on to Trump...or would he think they were faked?
Kirsa Rasmussen 8 years ago
This is not the exact same location. In the new photo he sitting in the place where there was water before, and where there was snow before, there is now water :-/
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Hans 8 years ago
While this is an impressive photo project, and the decline of ice is alarming, I am not sure if these photos can illustrate climate change. It is typical arrogance of humans to draw easy conclusions. I think we still only partly understand the dynamics of whether, and that includes decline and rise of ice masses in different regions of the world. Rallyin against artic oil drilling is another story, though, since we are speaking about very fragile ecosystems. Anyway, the photos are impressive!
Arty 8 years ago
I partially agree with you. Indeed we cannot draw any conclusion from these few pictures (there can be local, seasonal, annual variation). But we (i.e. the scientist) understand now pretty well the dynamics and icecaps are effectively regressing
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Ringo Starkey 8 years ago
We are not destroying our planet. We are just making it so we can't live on it.
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Alice Black 8 years ago
The most disturbing thing about this is that there are people who still deny that climate change is being caused by humans.
Alice Black 8 years ago
Really? I've been downvoted for expressing the scientific consensus agreed upon by over 100 international government agencies? Smh
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Elizabeth Hanks 8 years ago
The earth has a natural cycle of heating and cooling. We are, even without human intervention, in a warming cycle. However, humans have greatly increased this rate of warming,which scientists have proven. It would eventually have made it this far on its own, but 100 years? We are to blame.
Karan Vyas 8 years ago
The new problem is not how and why did it happened? It is how can this be stopped further and recovered back? Many of the actions which we humans need to take are know to us but the life style of today has made it to be neglected. Still one small effort from all the humans on planet can help to make things more better than before.
Richard Petch 8 years ago
This has happened time and time again over millions of years, did they call it climate change back then, I think it is the world doing it's own clean up thing over these next few hundred years, get rid of 99.9% of us humans and only the strongest animals will survive, and it is giving the earth time to recuperate so all this can start all over again.
Linda Goodman 8 years ago
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
Gary Gudalefsky 8 years ago
We were still rising out of the Little Ice Age 100 years ago so of Course there were bigger glaciers then. And if one looks back to the Holocene Climate Optimum there was NO summer ice for several centuries, ie, even lower than things are in the Arctic now.
Daria B 8 years ago
While these obviously show the huge difference and the alarming lack of ice, I do wonder whether the before and after photos were taken during the same seasons of the year.
Kristi Zoebelein 8 years ago
Glaciers do not change from season to season, they are incredibly massive. They last for thousands of years,...at least until now.
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Hans 8 years ago
While this is an impressive photo project, and the decline of ice is alarming, I am not sure if these photos can illustrate climate change. It is typical arrogance of humans to draw easy conclusions. I think we still only partly understand the dynamics of whether, and that includes decline and rise of ice masses in different regions of the world. Rallyin against artic oil drilling is another story, though, since we are speaking about very fragile ecosystems. Anyway, the photos are impressive!
Arty 8 years ago
I partially agree with you. Indeed we cannot draw any conclusion from these few pictures (there can be local, seasonal, annual variation). But we (i.e. the scientist) understand now pretty well the dynamics and icecaps are effectively regressing
Load More Replies... Ringo Starkey 8 years ago
We are not destroying our planet. We are just making it so we can't live on it.
Load More Replies... Alice Black 8 years ago
The most disturbing thing about this is that there are people who still deny that climate change is being caused by humans.
Alice Black 8 years ago
Really? I've been downvoted for expressing the scientific consensus agreed upon by over 100 international government agencies? Smh
Load More Replies... Elizabeth Hanks 8 years ago
The earth has a natural cycle of heating and cooling. We are, even without human intervention, in a warming cycle. However, humans have greatly increased this rate of warming,which scientists have proven. It would eventually have made it this far on its own, but 100 years? We are to blame.
Karan Vyas 8 years ago
The new problem is not how and why did it happened? It is how can this be stopped further and recovered back? Many of the actions which we humans need to take are know to us but the life style of today has made it to be neglected. Still one small effort from all the humans on planet can help to make things more better than before.
Richard Petch 8 years ago
This has happened time and time again over millions of years, did they call it climate change back then, I think it is the world doing it's own clean up thing over these next few hundred years, get rid of 99.9% of us humans and only the strongest animals will survive, and it is giving the earth time to recuperate so all this can start all over again.
Linda Goodman 8 years ago
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
Gary Gudalefsky 8 years ago
We were still rising out of the Little Ice Age 100 years ago so of Course there were bigger glaciers then. And if one looks back to the Holocene Climate Optimum there was NO summer ice for several centuries, ie, even lower than things are in the Arctic now.
Daria B 8 years ago
While these obviously show the huge difference and the alarming lack of ice, I do wonder whether the before and after photos were taken during the same seasons of the year.
Kristi Zoebelein 8 years ago
Glaciers do not change from season to season, they are incredibly massive. They last for thousands of years,...at least until now.
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