It is beginning to take shape World Bank conservation champions from different glaciers before they melt due to climate change on Earth
A great natural fridge and far will protect glacial giant blocks, threatened by melting and complete disappearance.
The idea came from the project "Protecting Ice Memory", an Italian-French born to be deposited into a pit of snow in Antarctica, near the base Concordia, a World Bank bars giant ice, taken from all those glaciers around the world that threaten to melt due to global warming.
The first step
To realize the project are engaged Laboratory Studies of Ice and Environmental Geophysics Grenoble in France, the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice, and he Grenobles.The idea began in 2015, but the first material in the "library" of world ice will come in a few days. From 15 August until the first days of September, the team of researchers ice will release three major ice rods with a length of 130 meters from the Col du Dôme, point located 4300 meters above the Mont Blanc in the French Alps.
One will be sent to a laboratory to be analyzed by the researchers, while two others will be sent to Concordia station, which will be stored in a pit with natural temperature -54 ° C, without the risk that the energy will escape bring their merger.
Race against time
The operation will be implemented by applying strict measures to avoid damage to the bars of ice and will be repeated in 2017, taking giant rods from Illimani glacier in Bolivia.Even here, as in Col du Dôme glacier, temperatures rise by 1.5-2 ° C every 10 years.Surface melting ice in the summer months, threatens to erase the historical memory of past climate.
"Our generation of scientists, which is witnessing changes as a result of global warming, has a special responsibility towards the younger generations," said Carlo Barbante for Focus, the supervisor of the project. Ice bars will be taken in other risk glaciers melting in Germany, Switzerland, Nepal and the United States.
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