Glacier researchers and hydrologists are currently surveying glaciers in Salzburg, Austria. Even if detailed data and measurement results are not yet available, it is clear that the glaciers have lost mass and size again this year. Bernhard Zagel, a glacier researcher at the University of Salzburg, describes this loss of mass: “If we have such an irradiation, with eight to nine hours of sunshine, the glacier loses its height by around ten centimetres. That’s enormous because ten centimetres of ice is lost per year. To make up for that, it would take ten meters of fresh snow, which would then t…