Just saw a reference to the former Ok glacier in Iceland, which a few years ago shrunk so much that it stopped being a glacier.

[holly@social.v.st]

Just saw a reference to the former Ok glacier in Iceland, which a few years ago shrunk so much that it stopped being a glacier. Please read this plaque they put up next to it.

[ticho@mas.to]

@holly One day, this will be displayed in a future museum somewhere, as an artifact from "the Greedy Era".

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@holly
#altText
The beginning says, "A letter to the Future", and the end of the plaque says, "August 2019, 415ppm CO2"

[checkervest@laserdisc.party]

@holly there’s a really lovely documentary about Iceland’s glaciers that’s narrated by the guy who wrote this, it’s called Time and Water and near the end it goes into him figuring out what to write on this plaque

[oldmeanroy@mas.to]

@holly guarantee it won't.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@oldmeanroy @holly In a month it will have been 7 years. We can judge current progress.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@holly That *hits*.

We really are the proverbial frog in the pot of hot water, except we're aware of it, and *still*turning the heat up, *ourselves*.

[matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it]

What would the PPM reading be now?

[dmian@mastodon.social]

@matthewcroughan @holly 432ppm (https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/earth-indicators/carbon-dioxide/)

[bedifferent@mastodon.social]

@holly If this was in the US, chump would shit all over it. No one would touch it to see what it said.

I'm sorry that happened and glad the sign is there.

[wheresalice@woof.tech]

@holly so it's not OK anymore?

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@holly

I read a news story the other month about a Swiss town where they have an annual religious rite.

It used to be dedicated towards pushing the glacier back.

Now it is dedicated to pulled the glacier forward.

Ah, found it:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/13/switzerland-alps-fiesch-aletsch-glaciers-retreat-ecosystems-mountains-culture-aoe

[mjankovic@social.sdfeu.org]

@holly How high above the sea level is the plaque?

[deirdrebeth@mas.to]

@wheresalice @holly

It's only fine.

[oldmeanroy@mas.to]

@crazyeddie @holly yup.

[oldmeanroy@mas.to]

@crazyeddie @holly the rate of increase is still increasing if that gives you a clue.

[violetpumpkin@mastodon.social]

@holly
We won't be able to say that we didn't know

If someone does not accept that global warming is real and that it is overwhelmingly caused by human activity, then I am not on speaking terms with that individual.

Scientific consensus. Period.

[zenkat@sfba.social]

@holly Spoiler alert: We didn't do it.

[bicycletting@mastodon.ie]

@oldmeanroy @crazyeddie @holly

Exponential !

Apparently very few people grasp exponentials.

[markwyner@mas.to]

@holly