[HN Gopher] Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point
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       Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point
        
       Author : toomuchtodo
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2025-07-26 17:57 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nature.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
        
       | Hikikomori wrote:
       | It's not happening. If it's happening it's not us. If it's us we
       | cannot do anything anyway. Who cares, we'll survive anyway. And
       | so on.
       | 
       | Anything to add?
        
         | tuatoru wrote:
         | I can't do anything about it. I want my spring break in
         | Mexico/trip to Paris.
        
           | pengaru wrote:
           | > I can't do anything about it. I want my spring break in
           | Mexico/trip to Paris.
           | 
           | Soon you could make the trip in less than an hour!
           | 
           | https://theconversation.com/new-york-to-paris-in-30-mins-
           | how...
           | 
           | Once all the ice is out of the way they can build a Svalbard
           | space port, can't wait for the Svalbard day hike + dinner
           | specials.
        
         | digdugdirk wrote:
         | And then, global climate change came for the shareholder
         | profits, but I did not speak out for I had no money to invest.
        
         | dingnuts wrote:
         | Sure, if you're going to flippantly imply that the only thing
         | needed to stop warming and return temperatures to pre
         | industrial levels is political will, you should be honest that
         | you're also advocating for the death of ~7 billion people to
         | return Earth to the previous carrying capacity and population
         | that could be supported without industrial energy supplies.
         | 
         | How's that?
        
         | skybrian wrote:
         | Yes, preparing for it.
        
       | netsharc wrote:
       | I actually visited Svalbard at the end of February 2025 - yes
       | they have a tourism industry, and are pivoting towards it from
       | coal (the last mine will be closed this year (1)). The first day
       | there was a snowstorm, it was damn cold and around -20C. The next
       | days there was a "heatwave" and the temperature was closer to 0C.
       | So I was a little disappointed that it wasn't as bitterly cold as
       | it "should" have been. But also relieved to not be chilled to the
       | bones.
       | 
       | In my tour group, 2 people were arriving on the evening flight.
       | But shortly before landing, the pilot noticed they have a
       | problem, and if they landed, they might not be able to take-off
       | again. The airline didn't want to have a plane be stuck in a
       | freezing hangarless airport in the arctic, so they flew back to
       | Tromso. Since Svalbard isn't in Schengen, the passengers of the
       | full 737 needed to go through the International border checks.
       | Sadly the Tromso passport control had closed for the evening,
       | so... they put all those passengers in a different plane all the
       | way back to Oslo to reenter Schengen, be put in a hotel, and to
       | wake up early to fly back to Svalbard the next morning.
       | 
       | That evening, I was sitting in the hostel lobby. Some people
       | showed up with suitcases. They were people who were expecting to
       | leave the island with that plane that turned around. One girl was
       | going to miss a flight back to Korea...
       | 
       | 1) https://www.spitsbergen-svalbard.com/photos-panoramas-
       | videos...
        
       | jonstewart wrote:
       | I went on a cruise around Spitsbergen last summer, went up to the
       | pack ice. The tour staff were hoping to zodiac us out onto the
       | ice but it was too broken up for that.
       | 
       | It's an amazing landscape, temperate enough in July, but you miss
       | trees. Brasvellbreen looks like The Wall in Game of Thrones,
       | stretching further than you can see.
        
         | johnofthesea wrote:
         | > but you miss trees
         | 
         | I saw birch forest at Svalbard. Was about 2cm tall.
        
       | LgWoodenBadger wrote:
       | You can see this first hand in Ewan McGregor's Long Way Home
       | series on Apple TV. He and a childhood friend ride motorcycles
       | through Northern Europe, and take a side trip to Svalbard. Their
       | guide there said the glacier was 30m further north than it used
       | to be.
        
       | hdb385 wrote:
       | Why are the elite still buying beachfront holiday homes?
        
       | LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
       | Need to go nuclear to ensure the further viability of the
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault !1!!
       | 
       | Go Billie, Go!
        
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