Vacationers see a large snow ruin from Argentina’s glacier
The sound of deep hoof from within the ice indicates a dramatic dramatic decline. Second later, a block of ice falls about 70 meters long-20-mangila building size-Aquamarine falls into the water below the face of the Moreo Moreno Glacier.
Darshan has attracted visitors for years for Argentina’s most famous glacier. Standing on the platforms facing ice, they wait for the next crack to divide the cool Petagonian air.
But recently the size of the snowflake is breaking – a process called “Calving” – starting to give alarm to the local guide and glacieologist, who is already worried on a long retreat by Perito Moreno, which promoted this trend to maintain its mass in recent decades, even rapidly as a warm climate.
Pablo Quintos, an official tourism guide at Los Glaciers National Park in Southern Province of Santa Cruz, said, “The ice -calm events of this size are not very common in the Perito Moreno Glacier in the last 20 years.”
“It is only in the last four to six years that we have begun to see this elder to Iceburgs,” he told the Reuters during a visit in April.
Tourists have visited Los Glaciers National Park in Argentina to see the famous Perito Moreno Glacier for a long time. But recently the size of ‘calculating’ phenomena, in which snowflakes have been broken from the main glacier, have spewed an alarm between local experts and glacieologists.
The face of the glacier, which flows below the Andean peaks, finished in the water of Argentina lake, more or less stable than decades, moving a few years forward and others retreated. But in the last five years, there has been a strong return.
“It was almost in the same position for the last 80 years,” Argentina’s glacieologist Lucas Ruiz said with the State Science Body Consult (National Scientific and Technical Research Council).
“However, since 2020, the Perito Moreno Glacier’s parts of the face are signs of retreat.”
He said that the glacier has done the same as before, the glacier can reversed, but at the moment it was losing one and two meters per year, which if not reversed, may have a situation where the loss is faster.
A state-backed 2024 report presented by Ruiz and a state-backed 2024 report presented to the Congress of Argentina showed that the mass of Perito Moreno has been overall for half a century, the period since 2015 has seen the fastest and longest loss in 47 years, lost 0.85 meters per year.
According to a UNESCO report in March, glaciers around the world have been disappearing much faster than ever, given the largest glaciers on records over the last three years.
‘You cannot understand its immatureness’
Ruiz said that his research team had seen an increase in air temperature and a decrease in rainfall in the area of about 0.06C per decade to monitor the glacier, which means low accumulation of snow and snow.
“The thing with Perito Moreno is that to feel the effects of climate change, it took some time to speak,” Ruiz said. Now, however, the accumulation of ice at the top of the glacier was regretting melting and cooling downwards.
“The changes we are seeing today clearly show that this balance of forces … has been interrupted, and today the glacier is losing both thickness and the region.”
For now, the glacier remains an amazing attraction for the passengers, climbing the boats to see boats and huge iceberg floating around the lake.
“This is crazy. The most incredible thing I have ever seen,” Brazilian tourist Jiovanna Machao said on the deck of one of the boats, which would be careful with sudden snowfall.
“Even in photos, you can’t just understand its vastness, and it’s perfect. It’s amazing. I think everyone should come here at least once in their lifetime.”
