Xinhua San Diego, December 7 (Reporter Yeshu Hong ZHAO) in southern Chile is one of Earth's wilderness areas, where ice is considered the most valuable tourism resources. However, with global warming, glaciers are constantly retreating. Chilean scientists took a year, with thousands of photos recorded accelerated glacier retreat Jorge Monte dynamic process.
Jordi Oliva from the Chi Institute of Science, scientists at the Via Monte Ice Jorge four different locations set up a high-definition camera and positioning system, from January last year to January this year a total of 1445 consecutive shooting photos, visually reproduction in one year reduced the ice nearly 1 km of stunning images.
Glaciologist Andres Rivera said that from 1898, the first contraction of the ice occurred, but slowly. The 1990s began a second contract, in less than seven years reduced by 7 km and along with the collapse. Now, shrinking glaciers speed up speed again, and produce a lot of ice.
Rivera believes that the retreat of glaciers Jorge Monte global warming is one of the most serious consequences, the impact of climate change, where the most significant.
Jorge Monte glaciers in the Patagonia region of southern Chile, following the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets after the world's third largest, but also Chile, an important part of the southern ice fields. Chile's water management bureau of the study, from 1986 to 2007, the ice in southern Chile has 20 glaciers have undergone retreat, and glacier retreat Jorge Monte phenomenon is most serious.
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