>3 June 2021
What we reached:
- Last Friday we visited the "Aletschgletscher"
3 June 2021
Our next steps:
- Improve our survey
- Give up expence report for our travel
Genti and Tiziano
[in progress]
Short interview with us (Team Zurich TZ21)
Team Basque asked us some questions. We replied:
- Why are glaciers important?
Because we can use the water to produce electricity, use it like water-tank and also produce water to drink.
- How many glaciers are there on your site?
22
- Why is glacial ice blue?
Because part of white light is absorbed by ice and the blue (short wavelengths) light is transmitted and scattered.
Genti and Tiziano
[in progress]
The website of the "Gletscherinitiative" has some drammatic news: https://gletscher-initiative.ch/climate-update/climate-update-26-05-2021.
Genti and Tiziano
>27 May 2021
What we reached:
- In the last week we had some exchanges via e-mail with the glaciologe Prof. Dr. Daniel Farinotti, because he plans a visit with a team of totally nine persons to the glacier called "Aletschgletscher"
27 May 2021
Our next steps:
- Improve our survey
- Tomorrow Genti, I and Frau Suter will visit the "Aletschgletscher". To arrive to the glacier, we will have to take the train. Our trip will start in Winterthur at 04:42 hour. We will arrive to Grindelwald at 08:08 hour. We will there meet the rest of the team. Then, we will take the gondola to arrive to the "Jungfraujoch". While Genti already has a General Abonnement, Tiziano will have to buy one to arrive to Grindelwald. The ticket costs totaly CHF 159.40.-
Genti and Tiziano
[in progress]
30 May 2021
As we fixed with Team Kerala, we will upload the results of our survey on "The Horse". Team Kerala did it today.
We also received some questions from Team Basque on glacier melt, which had been responded.
Genti and Tiziano
[in progress]
28 May 2021, Aletschgletscher (VS)
Our journey started at 03:30, as we woke up. Then we prepared us for our trip to the "Aletschgletscher". Firstly took the train from Winterthur at 04:30 to arrive to Zurich. There we took the train to arrive to Bern. After that, we took another train to arrive to Interlaken Ost. Lastly, we took an interregional train from Interlaken Ost to arrive to Grindelwald "Terminal".
When we arrived at the «Terminal» of the Jungfraujoch, we saluted our team. There was Prof. Dr. Daniel Farinotti, his student Jane, Mrs. Suter, two camerca guys and a women as well as a guy that where there as investors from the market agency "La Prairie". More...
This interview was taken the 28 May 2021 directly on the "Aletschgletscher"
- Is "artificial snow" efficient enough to save glaciers?
- "It is instantly efficient, but in general I think that glaciers are condemned to die. So the glaciers won't grow in the future."
- Do you know countermeasures to stop the glacier melt?
- "Artificial snow is only one possibility. Another one is to reduce the emissions."
- Will you vote for the "glacier initiative"?
- Obviously!
- Is it realistic to reduce the emissions to zero by the year 2050 as the Paris climate agreement wanted?
- I think it's not so realistic.
- Is water more important than the fundamental part of a glacier?
- Sure it is! A glacier consists to 99% of water.
In the next week, we will have four other questions for Prof. Dr. Dario Farinotti, that today was very occupied during his research on the "Aletschgletscher".
Genti and Tiziano
[in progress]
With team Basque we are in contact via e-mail. We wrote each other for the first time in March 2021. We try to help each other, but we don't have so many points to share. We now try to talk about a survey, that they could create.
We are in contact by WhatsApp with team Kerala. We started to coperate in April 2021. Then we did a video conference via "Google" on 22nd April, 2021. In the next days, we will have another video conference to talk about their interview with some professors of India the progress of the surveys of both teams. The surveys should then be posted here on "The horse".
Genti and Tiziano
[in progress]
This online interview was taken the 19th May 2021 with Marcel Hänggi, scientific Assistant
- How can we as human beings actually save our glaciers? What countermeasures do we have?
We have to stop global warming and to do this we have to stop the emission of greenhouse gases. However: glaciers react with a delay. If it didn't get any warmer from now on, the glacier melt would still continue for More...
The Swiss Climate Protection Association (https://gletscher-initiative.ch/) has been founded the 25th August 2018 to make sure that Switzerland has an effective and fair climate policy. The aim is, to reduce greenhouse gases to zero until 2050 - like the Federal Counsil of Switzerland decided (https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/de/home/themen/klima/fachinformationen/emissionsverminderung/verminderungsziele/ziel-2050.html).
On the 10th May 2019, it is being carried out "The glacier initiative" to build a citizens' movement on and below the public relations work for a view of the necessary information about the damage.
After having reached the necessary 100'000 votes, the initiative had been sent to the Federal Counsil on the 27th of November 2019.
On the 2 September 2020, The Federal Counsil of Switzerland submitted a direct counter-draft.
We expect the message of the Federal Counsil of Switzerland until the 31th August 2021.
A year or two later it should start the "Parlamental phase".
Last but not least, at the end of 2022 until 2024 we will have the voting about the glacier initiative.
In a next step, we try to connect our project with the work of the Association to exchange each other on the damage about glacier melt.
[in progress]
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