(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 10 - Alpine glaciers are shrinking "at an unimaginable rate, more than 200 have already disappeared since the late nineteenth century, giving way to debris and rocks", due to global warming.
Legambiente denounces this by announcing the start of the third edition of "Carovana dei Ghiacciai", the itinerant monitoring promoted by the environmentalist association as part of the "ChangeClimateChange" campaign, with the scientific partnership of the Italian Glaciological Committee, to verify "the dramatic regression of the glaciers due to the climate crisis" .
In the Alps, temperatures are rising at twice the global average.
The atmosphere, above 3,500 meters of altitude, is in total disequilibrium: at the end of July, the freezing point was recorded by MeteoSwiss on the Swiss Alps at 5,184 meters.
An unprecedented figure, says Legambiente, noting the effects of the winter 2021/2022, extremely mild and dry throughout the Italian Alps (in many areas the threshold of 100 days without rain has been exceeded).
Snow on the ground has undergone a steady decrease in the last ten years;
many snow gauges, already in May they reached zero.
"A little more than a month after the tragedy of the Marmolada - declares Giorgio Zampetti, national director of Legambiente - we are returning to draw attention to the climate emergency: there is no more time for our mountains, which throw us a strong and clear support. the third edition of Caravan of the ice we want to return to providing data and concrete elements to ask the Italian government to push the accelerator to reach net greenhouse gas emissions equal to zero in 2040, in line with the Paris Agreement (Cop21), and to have a climate adaptation plan to protect territories and communities. Starting with the most affected areas, such as the Alps ".
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