Scientists and members of the public will unveil a monument recognizing the former Okjökull glacier next month.
Iceland is preparing to unveil a monument to its first glacier lost to global warming. The Okjökull glacier in Borgarfjörður lost its title in 2014 after scientists determined it was no longer thick enough to sink and move under its own weight. The lost glacier went on to become the subject of 2018 documentaryFollowing the film, a group of scientists and members of the public decided to memorialize the glacier with a plaque.
"Anthropogenic climate change is also something that people have done and we wanted to draw explicit attention to that fact. From the vantage point of the future, we were trying to imagine future generations looking back to our time and our responsibility for it," Howe said. She said the loss of glaciers will have an impact on people from Iceland—a country known as the land of ice and fire because of its glaciers and volcanoes:"Losing half of that identity is cause for some grief and I believe, frustration, for it is not the Icelandic population that has produced massive amounts of emissions either in the past or present, and yet, their country is feeling the effects of climate change quite dramatically, especially as the Arctic region is heating at about...
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