Climate change is real. If you have any doubt about it, I invite you to drive about three hours east of Reykjavik and see the Sólheimajökull glacier. The Icelandic Meteorological Office claims that Sólheimajökull is a textbook example of the effects of global warming on Iceland’s rapidly melting glaciers. This glacier has been retreating about 164 feet (roughly the width of a football field) every year since 1986. You can see in the video, which I recorded at the Perlan Museum in Reykjavik, the amount of melting that’s occurred at Sólheimajökull since 2007. This is just one glacier; about 11 billion tons of glacial ice is melting in Iceland every year. Iceland’s government made a pledge this week to exceed the goals of the Paris Agreement and to be carbon neutral by 2040. In 2018 I encourage you to look into what you can do, through individual and local action, to minimize your impact on the earth. 🌏 #climatechange #iceland #solheimajokull #glacier #savetheglaciers #savetheworld (at Sólheimajökull Glacier)
