When I left the house this morning I found that for a 50 metre radius the ground was treacherous with ice. The slight wind overnight blown the melting surface of the compacted snow to a smooth finish worthy of a Rolls Royce paint finishing shop. It's a little like living on a glacier.
Digging through the archive of blurry and poor quality, pre-digital, images I have produces a couple of pictures of a real life glacier. The Rhône Glacier.
Visible in the above picture at the right is the tunnel into the glacier. At the end of the tunnel was someone dressed as Santa. In August. The Swiss started Christmas early even back in 1978.
Another view of the glacier. It was immense.
Wikipedia shows that the size of the glacier has diminished substantially since the early 1980s, a decline that has been measured since the late 1800s.
Graph taken from the Wiki article.
While looking for related information I found an article in the Daily Mail showing the glacier being covered in white sheets every summer to prevent melting. I accidentally read the comments section. Maybe the climate change deniers that inhabit Mail-space ought to be covered in sheets too to stop them overheating and adding to climate change.
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