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In 1963, 4 years before the first forecasts of global warming, French television was already wondering about the melting of the glaciers. Back to an extract from journalist and scientist Nicolas Skrotzky, who was trying to warn about these phenomena.
“Half a century ago, around 1900, people who came here, the first mountaineers, saw this valley completely filled. The glacier we were on was 130m higher.“50 years ago, journalist and scientist Nicolas Skrotzky was already trying to show the consequences of global warming on the planet.
“Imagine that the great Antarctic glaciers, which account for 90% of the world’s fresh water, were to melt. Sea levels would rise about a hundred meters, drowning most cities.” In 1963, Nicolas Skrotzky was already worried about the melting of glaciers and the consequences of global warming. “How do you want us to know in the years to come, since this variation of a glacier of one hundred meters in altitude occurred in the space of a man’s life, how these variations continue?”
For the journalist and scientist, glaciers still hold many mysteries. “These masses of ice, by their quantity, their cold atmosphere, influence the climate. But they are also kinds of refrigerators, it is the only place where one can find the past and understand how the climates have varied.”
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