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Swiss president vows aid after glacier destroys village
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Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter said on Friday (May 30) that a small alpine village had been affected by an “indescribable” disaster when millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down onto it this week.
Most of the Swiss village of Blatten was seen submerged under water, mud and rock on Thursday.
It comes a day after a large chunk of a glacier came crashing down a mountain, engulfing some 90% of the village.
Blatten’s 300 residents had already been evacuated earlier in May after part of the mountain behind the Birch Glacier began to crumble.
Rescue teams have continued looking for a missing 64-year-old man, but have so far found nothing.
A spokesperson for local authorities said that buildings which had emerged intact from the landslide are now flooded and that some residents of neighboring villages had been evacuated as a precaution.
Some experts have warned of the risks of flooding as vast mounds of debris are clogging the path of the River Lonza, causing a huge lake to swell amid the wreckage.
MYLENE JACQUEMART: “The images are just really, really shocking.”
Mylene Jacquemart is a glaciologist.
“Over the course of the past two weeks or so, there was a large rock instability that developed above the glacier. So there’s a mountain and rocks started falling off the mountain and depositing on the glacier.”
While Jacquemart cannot say for certain whether climate change was the underlying cause of this event, she said it’s one of the main drivers behind big changes in the mountains.
“…what we know is that climate change of high elevations is not favorable for rock slope stability. So with increasing temperatures, more water available through ice and snowmelt, maybe precipitation falling, even high elevations more often as rain than as snow. So those are factors that are not beneficial to mountain stability.”
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Swiss president vows aid after glacier destroys village
#breakingnews #switzerland #glacier #weather #climatechange #naturaldisaster
Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter said on Friday (May 30) that a small alpine village had been affected by an "indescribable" disaster when millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down onto it this week.
Most of the Swiss village of Blatten was seen submerged under water, mud and rock on Thursday.
It comes a day after a large chunk of a glacier came crashing down a mountain, engulfing some 90% of the village.
Blatten’s 300 residents had already been evacuated earlier in May after part of the mountain behind the Birch Glacier began to crumble.
Rescue teams have continued looking for a missing 64-year-old man, but have so far found nothing.
A spokesperson for local authorities said that buildings which had emerged intact from the landslide are now flooded and that some residents of neighboring villages had been evacuated as a precaution.
Some experts have warned of the risks of flooding as vast mounds of debris are clogging the path of the River Lonza, causing a huge lake to swell amid the wreckage.
MYLENE JACQUEMART: "The images are just really, really shocking."
Mylene Jacquemart is a glaciologist.
"Over the course of the past two weeks or so, there was a large rock instability that developed above the glacier. So there's a mountain and rocks started falling off the mountain and depositing on the glacier."
While Jacquemart cannot say for certain whether climate change was the underlying cause of this event, she said it's one of the main drivers behind big changes in the mountains.
"…what we know is that climate change of high elevations is not favorable for rock slope stability. So with increasing temperatures, more water available through ice and snowmelt, maybe precipitation falling, even high elevations more often as rain than as snow. So those are factors that are not beneficial to mountain stability."
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❤ from America!
So sad
So glad people evacuated.
This is mother nature doing what she does, God bless these beings❤
Swiss banks are full of stolen loot so financing shouldn't be a problem.
You want know what is the main reason behind climate warming? Your man made chemtrails roaming the skies! And your secret projects for dimming or blocking the sun!
Very sad
Yikes was so beautiful but that’s life below mtns : Frank Slide in BC Canada
Well, what else is going on in switzerland besides that? Not like they dont have the finances either. In other news, water is wet. Shocking
Deben construir un canal para que el agua fluya lo más rápido posible. Cada hora que pasa, el lago crece.
Climate change is the reason n for literally everything. Lies by liars
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YouTube banners get me every time 😂
Fortunately, all of the residents but one (possibly) of the village have survived. Landslides happen all the time and all around the world, simply because that's how nature works, and not because of "human-caused climate change" as the YouTube banner would have you believe.
It wasn't violence. It's called mother nature and gravity. These clowns will lead you to your destitution keep following her