Eisgrotte Belvédère , Rhonegletscher, Switzerland

Glacier Blankets in Switzerland Highlight Global Disparities in Fighting Climate Change
BY EMILY DENNY |JANUARY 5, 2022 Comments
Ice cave facilities and ski resorts in Switzerland are covering their glaciers with blankets, known as geotextiles, to slow melting in a warming world. Although geotextiles have proven to be locally effective at slowing glacier melt, they have been criticized for being an expensive, unscalable, and inequitable display of the various ways communities are responding to climate change

Made out of synthetic material, geotextiles cover parts of a glacier to insulate thick winter snow during the warmer summer months by reflecting energy emitted by the sun. According to a study published in the journal Cold Regions Science and Technology earlier this year, the technique can slow ice melting by 50 percent, which would allow longer tourist seasons and postpone the eventual demise of the glaciers, which the tourism industry relies on. With this effectiveness widely recognized, the area in the Swiss Alps covered by geotextiles has doubled in the last seven years. Implementing geotextiles is also fairly simple, requiring less infrastructure, energy and water compared to other methods to reduce melting, particularly artificial snow production

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