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00:42Don't do the font
00:48Hockney there is the normal
01:00Indeed it is worrying to me that despite of the perfect year we actually had for glaciers with the
01:08Snow-rich winter and the rather cool and rainy spring
01:12It was still not enough for glaciers due to the much too high summer
01:16They have again lost so much ice that they are far out of balance
01:21If the trend continues that we have seen in this year
01:30This will be a disaster for Swiss glaciers. They will completely or almost completely disappear by the end of the century
01:38So it is needed that the temperatures don't warm so quickly as they have in the last years or decades
01:45And that they stabilize and then some of the bigger glaciers could still survive in a smaller extent
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02:39Since three weeks we lost this
02:43Amount of ice so three weeks ago the surface of the ice was up here now it is down here if we
02:51Look at this at the annual timescale
02:54Last October
02:57The surface was a bit higher than the end of the stake
03:01So this is the melting we have experienced in the year in the summer of
03:082024 so far
03:10Which is quite a lot
03:26Every time you come back and you look at these changes it is very impressive and
03:33There's really a relation you build up with this site with the ice and it
03:39Hurts a bit to see how the rocks are simply taking over
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04:21August was an extremely warm month especially in the high mountains for example at Jungfraujoch
04:27We have even seen record high temperatures and this is as led to glacier melt
04:32that was never so high as in 24 not even in the extreme years of
04:382003 and 22
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