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Massive white tarpaulins are being used to protect Alpine glaciers from melting over the summer.
In northern Italy, the Presena glacier has lost more than one third of its volume since 1993.
Once the ski season is over and cable cars are berthed, conservationists race to try and stop it melting by using white tarps that block the sun's rays.
"This area is continuously shrinking, so we cover as much of it as possible," explains Davide Panizza, 34, who heads the Carosello-Tonale company that does the work.
From around 30,000 square metres (36,000 square yards) covered in 2008 when the project began, his team now places 100,000 square metres under wraps.
The tarps themselves are "geotextile tarpaulins that reflect sunlight, maintaining a temperature lower than the external one, and thus preserving as much snow as possible," according to Panizza.
Installation and removal of the tarps takes approximately six weeks each to complete. Similar systems are in place on a few Austrian glaciers as well.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @11:11AM (5 children)
Until you realize the profits that were made from burning fossil is what caused the problem in the first place.
Take the money from everybody to pay for it, just not from the fossil fuel industry, give them subsidies instead [soylentnews.org].
Fucking armchair economy strategists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @12:01PM (4 children)
Solutions having problems is hardly some new thing. Why did we start the massive harvesting of fossil fuels? Because people were tired of getting around on horses and foot and everybody wanted one of those shiny new horseless carriages for themselves. And so businesses emerged to provide something practically unthinkable - each and every single human being able to consume, on average, about 2 liters of oil per day - every day - for decades. It's a remarkable achievement, in the shadow of what will be required to scrub the atmosphere and indeed that industry may ultimately end up causing unforseen consequences we can't yet divine which can, in turn, be solved if necessary - and so forth on out, indefinitely.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday June 22 2020, @01:36PM
How right you are!
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(episode) [fandom.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 22 2020, @04:24PM (2 children)
Oh, God, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing. (grin)
How can I believe you? Letting aside you're incapable of divine, you forgot to add "and at exponential rate".
Look, capitalism just doesn't work without exponential grow. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:01AM (1 child)
Your post is a sad reflection of internet discourse in general:
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:52AM
Your post reflects your poor state of pun disability (grin)
Also, let me introduce you to the punishing convention of grinning [soylentnews.org].
As the author has put it, its totally your fault for taking me seriously and it's up to you if you want to waste your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford