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Iceland unveils memorial to glacier in climate change warning

Iceland unveils memorial to glacier in climate change warning
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By Richard Good
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Iceland’s prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir was among those who attended the ceremony at the site where the Okjokull glacier once was.

Environmentalists in Iceland have laid a commemorative plaque on the site of a Glacier that has been declared “dead” in as a warning to the world about climate change.

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Iceland’s prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir was among those who attended the ceremony at the site where the Okjokull glacier once was.

Situated on top of a volcano, Okjokull was declared dead five years ago because it no longer has the critical mass necessary to move and so can no longer be defined as a glacier. It had existed for some 700 years.

Scientists monitoring glaciers on the island say that in the past twenty years almost one in five glaciers has disappeared.

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