Research institute NIWA predicts many of country’s most important glaciers will be gone within the decade The plane’s engine groans, and its small frame rises. Through a thin membrane of cloud, the spine of the southern alps rises like a dark sawblade.“I’m wondering if my favourite glacier is going to be there,” says principal climate scientist Dr Andrew Lorrey. “We’ve had a really, really hot one this summer. It’s hard to say. We’ll just have to see how they’ve gone.” Continue reading… Source – Full Article ‘Slipping through our fingers’: New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss
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