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Your shocking climate change video for the day:

The Jorge Montt Glacier in Patagonia is retreating faster than any other glacier in Chile. You can watch the time-lapse as it loses nearly 1 km of ice over a year.

Precise, specific causes aren’t known, but it shows how delicate these icy monsters really are.

(by AssociatedPress)

Source: youtube.com

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    Note that glacier’s withdrawing took place during austral fall/winter 2010
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    I’m going to go cry now.
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