Merida | Authorities analyze the final glacier seeking knowledge earlier than the irreversible extinction

The Authorities analyzes the conduct of the final glacier, positioned within the state of Mérida, seeking “useful info” regarding this mass of ice that has entered the method of extinction, because the Minister of Ecosocialism (Setting), Josué Lorca, defined to EFE.

To acquire this knowledge, in February authorities deployed a geotextile blanket over the mass of ice – 0.02 sq. kilometers, based on unbiased estimates – that continues to be of La Corona, a glacier that in its peak lined 4.5 sq. kilometers of the Pico Humboldt, regarding 4,900 meters above sea stage.

“Venezuela can present a variety of useful info based on this challenge that we’re doing in the present day in order that different international locations which might be on the identical path (of warming) shield their glaciers,” mentioned the minister, who considers it imprecise to declare the extinction of the glacier, though it admits that its eventual disappearance is irreversible.

He mentioned that the Govt, which is getting ready a primary report on the case, makes use of a “totally different criterion for measuring the loss or not of the glacier,” as a result of – he argued – “the satellite tv for pc picture doesn’t present the ice layer, which isn’t fully white.” .

Textile blanket challenge on the glacier

Though he prefers to not make estimates in regards to the remaining life span of the ice fragments, he insists on the significance of this remark that Venezuela makes “with a South American imaginative and prescient to be an instance” for the area “for the long run.” .

“(It is regarding understanding) what we are able to do nicely and the way we will help give our glaciers a breath of extra years,” he remarked.

Lorca indicated that the bills of the complete geotextile blanket challenge are 100% paid, which ensures the removing of this system as soon as the measurements of the extinction interval are concluded.

«The challenge is scheduled for a yr or a yr and a half, the blanket should be eliminated. In accordance with the estimates and based on the progress of the challenge, we ought to be decreasing the geotextile layer subsequent yr,” he mentioned.