On the proposal of the research world it was named Glasgow, after the city that hosts the Cop 26, the Antarctic glacier at risk of melting and is the ninth that since 1979 has been dedicated to an event or an international document on the climate; and also one of the nine most endangered glaciers in West Antarctica. This was announced by the European Space Agency (ESA), whose satellites constantly monitor the nine glaciers, concentrated in the region Getz. The new name was added in the cartography of Antarctica at the request of researchers from the British University of Leeds. Ten years later, in 2007, the glacier Bali underlined the role of the first report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In the same year the glacier Incheon he underlined the first interdisciplinary report, the result of three working groups of the IPCC.

Source: Huffington Post November 02, 2021 22:15 UTC