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A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of photos that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers.

Duncan Porter, a software developer from Bristol, posted photos that were taken in the same spot at the Rhone glacier in August 2009 and August 2024. The white ice that filled the background has shrunk to reveal grey rock. A once-small pool at the bottom, out of sight in the original, has turned into a vast green lake.

“Not gonna lie, it made me cry,” Porter said in a viral post on social media platform X on Sunday night.

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[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 148 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My dad thinks climate change is a scam and "someone [i]s making a lot of money from it"

My dad also laments that the local lake doesn't freeze over like it did when he was a teenager, DRIVING on top of it with his brothers.

Totally unrelated to climate change though. Cause that's totes fake.

Also storms are more violent and frequent, winters are basically spring 2.0 now and the local river has flooded way past historic levels and could threaten the downtown area of their city within the decade.

But all that is SOOOOOOO unrelated.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 months ago

The cognitive dissonance is so strange to me. I'm a native Cheesehead and it's a well documented fact that ice fishing season in Wisconsin is quickly getting shorter and shorter due to the higher winter temperatures.

Maybe it's a branding issue. What if we start referring to "climate change" as "demise of ice fishing" or "imminent collapse of the snowmobile industry"?

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

imminent collapse of the snow industry

That should make the tourism industry get their lobbying straight.

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

He is partially right - there are people making a lot of money from climate change... Or at least from causing it

[-] greenskye@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

To be fair there are also a lot of 'green' company scams out there too. Grifters are everywhere

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I would say "some", not "a lot". Unless you know about way more "green" scams than I'm aware of.

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yup, and it has a name - Greenwashing.

[-] amanda@aggregatet.org 5 points 3 months ago

That’s capitalism for you: one company makes money creating the problem and another fixing it! It’s double-pumped!

[-] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

A thousand year event, every year.

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

The hottest day on record every year

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Talked to a random farmer last week:
"Weather is unpredictable, so wet, then hot, then cold. I need to work 36 hours straight or our hay will get wet. But I gotta feed my cows. Well, I guess this is just how it is, right?"
I really didn't know what to say to him. Evaporation, water cycle, soil compaction, diesel, methan, milk? He wouldn't even try to understand any of this. I don't want to become one of the cynical "we are fucked"-people. Everyone can change something in their lifes.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

That sounds like some northern Minnesota things lol

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