Iceland is home to more than 400 glaciers , but that number no longer includes Okjökull , a glacier that scientist say was " killed " by climate change . One hundred years ago , the glacier covered 15 solid kilometers ( 5.8 square miles ) ofOk Mountain , a shell volcano . It ’s now just 1 square kilometre ( 0.62 straight miles ) in size and less than 15 meters ( 49 feet ) deep , and scientists no longer think it a glacier .
To commemorate the “ death ” of Okjökull , researchers and glaciologists will unveil a plaque on August 18 at Borgarfjörður , Iceland , to answer as a admonition for the future , The Guardianreports . Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason compose the plaque ’s ominous password , emboss in Icelandic and English :
The text also note the highest engrossment of the nursery gas carbon copy dioxide in Earth ’s atmosphere ever reached : 415 part per million , arecordset in May 2019 . agree to meteorologists , that CO2 level is higher than at any meter in last several million years , raise average temperatures across the globe and put all life on Earth at peril . Global warming make Icelandic glaciers to lose11 billion tonsof ice every yr — and sometimes revealsdead bodies .
On the twenty-four hours before the ceremony , a 2018 documentary shoot about the glacier , Not Ok , will block out in Reykjavik , Iceland . As part of the August 18 ceremony , the great unwashed are boost to partake in theUn - glacier Tour II , a hike on Ok to see the remains of the glacier before it completely disappears . The tour is “ meant to be a tally with glacial dying as well as a jubilation of glacial life . ”
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June 2019 was thehottest monthon record , and by 2200 , scientists predict that all of Iceland ’s glacier will succumb to the same portion as Ok " unless we act now to radically curtail greenhouse gas emissions , ” Dominic Boyer , a Rice University anthropologist and co - producer ofNot Ok , toldThe Guardian .
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