Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change

[Steve001]

Iceland on Sunday honoured the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. As the world recently marked the warmest July ever on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on a bare rock in a ceremony on the former glacier in western Iceland, attended by local researchers and their peers at Rice University in the United States who initiated the project.
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-08-iceland-commemorates-glacier-lost-climate.html

 

[alfaniner]

I'm not sure which version of WaterWorld it was in, but it reminds me of the plaque at the very end. They're on the last remaining bit of "Dryland" and find a marker stating that it's Mount Everest.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

The Icelanders can apparently plant flowers and other garden flowers now, something that as far as I have understood things has not been possible before.

Which I suppose isn't such a bad thing, but another good illustration of how much the climate is changing.