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Sumo in reply to @Stonehedge

Yeah it's really bad. We've already fucked the planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/04/melting-glaciers-swiss-alps-could-reveal-hundreds-mummified-corpses

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PhilDAS in reply to @Sumo

Switzerland’s glaciers have been melting at an unprecedented rate, losing almost one cubic km in ice volume or about 900 bn litres of water over the past year.

900 bn litres of water.
the past year.
ffs

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chez_jay in reply to @PhilDAS

I worked out that's about a seventh of the Thames flow rate, which sounds less impressive.

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