20\08\2019 Iceland environment alert

Alert
Iceland's geologist Oddur Sigurðsson had declared the Okjökull glacier in western Iceland extinct in 2014 and a funeral was held by 100 mostly people on 19\08\2019 as the last few fragments melted away. It is now just a few patches of meaningless ice and snow. Many scientists said it was to be listed as the first of Iceland's glaciers to disappear because of the effects of climate change.

About 100 years ago, the glacier covered almost 6 square miles of a mountainside and had measured more than 160 feet thick.

The plaque that had been installed at the site of the former glacier on 19\08\2019 reads:
 * “In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path, This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”