Sweden's tallest mountain has lost its title, and climate change is to blame, as the glacier covering its summit continues to shrink due to rising temperatures, scientists have confirmed
now stands at 2,095.6 meters
"For the first time since 1880 we can say for certainty that it's lower than the other peak," Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist, a Stockholm University geography professor who has been measuring the peak each year, told CNN."Last year we suspected it, but it never went below the other peak. Now, we measured it at the end of melt season on September 3 using GPS technology with only a few centimeters margin of error.
Even more worrying is that, in the past 10 years, the melt rate has been one meter per year, she said. "The shrinking rate has increased because it's getting warmer and warmer. A strong snowy winter could balance it out, but it will eventually melt in the summer," Ninis Rosqvist added., Finland and Norway for stations above the Arctic Circle. They were also blamed for a string of unprecedented wildfires in Sweden that have prompted the country to request assistance from other nations such as Italy that have more resources to fight wildfires.
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