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AROUND 95 per cent of glaciers in the Alps will be wiped out by the end of the century if the world continues pumping out carbon emissions at the current rate.
That is the stark warning from research using a more realistic way of modelling how ice will react to rising temperatures due to climate change.
“You get what you can’t really call glaciers any more, just some ice patches,” says Harry Zekollari at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, who presented the work at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference in Vienna, Austria, this week.
Today, there…
