MELTING OF THE SNOW IN

COLOMBIAPRESENTED BY: TATIANA BARRIGA

SNOWY COLOMBIANS, IN IMMINENT EXTINCTIONAS ROCKY HILLS, ALMOST NAKED IN THE LOSS OF ITS LAYERS OF SNOW. SO WE SEE TODAY THE RUIZ, THE SANTA ISABEL AND THE TOLIMA, GLACIERS OF THE NATIONAL NATURAL PARK OF THE SNOWY PEAKS (PNNN) EXPERTS I PREDICT THAT IN LESS THAN 50 YEARS, THE SAME FATE THE CHILI PEPPERS, AND THE CUMBAL (ON GRASS), AND THE SUGAR LOAF AND THE PURACÉ (IN THE CAUCA), AMONG OTHERS SNOWY COLOMBIANS WHOSE MELTING WAS IMMINENT DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

ITS PROGRESSIVE MELTING, SIMILAR TO THAT OF MANY ON THE PLANET, IS ATTRIBUTED BY SCIENCE AT THE END OF THE INTERGLACIAL PERIOD (DETERMINED FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES) THAT IS EXPERIENCING FROM 10.000 YEARS AGO THE EARTH, BUT ALSO TO THE “LITTLE HAND” THAT THE HUMAN BEING WILL IS GIVING WITH THE EMISSION OF GASES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE MISUSE OF WATER RESOURCES! ITS DISAPPEARANCE DOES NOT ONLY MEAN THE END OF A MAGNIFICENT LANDSCAPE OF SNOW. ALSO AFFECTED CLOSE THREE MILLION INHABITANTS OF THE AREA TO SUPPLY WATER PRODUCED BY THIS FACTORY NATURAL

THE IMPOSING KUMANDAY• NEAR 58.300 HECTARES MAKE UP THE PNNN, WHOSE FAUNA IS REPRESENTED BY CONDORS, DEER,

SPECTACLED BEARS AND COUGARS. YOUR DEPOSIT IS THE PART WATER, BECAUSE IT HAS BASINS THAT ARE BORN OF THE PARAMO ECOSYSTEM THAT TAKES THE WATER AND GIVEN TO THEN PROVIDE IT TO THE POPULATION. THE ROAD MANIZALES - BOGOTA WAS THE ACCESS ROAD TO THE FOOT OF THE MAJESTIC KUMANDAY (OR BANK BEAUTIFUL), AS NAMED ON THE VOLCANO NEVADO DEL RUIZ INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THAT INHABITED THIS TERRITORY OF THE CORDILLERA CENTRAL MOUNTAIN RANGE. IT WAS ALMOST 7:00 IN THE MORNING AND WHILE THE TRUCK IS OF AN ADVANCED THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN TO TAKE THE ALTERNATIVE TO NEREIDS, THE RAYS OF THE SUN WERE ALLOWED TO SEE THE IMPOSING KUMANDAY ESTACIÓN MONITORING IN PIJAO, QUINDÍO. INTERMITENTE THE SNOW PEAK OF THE RUIZ, WHICH WAS QUICKLY COVERED BY THE FOG. DESPITE THE FACT THAT STUDIES OF THE IDEAM SHOW THAT THIS PARADISE GLACIER IS REDUCED 20 LINEAR METRES PER YEAR, WHICH MEANS TO SEE AND TOUCH THE SNOW MUST CLIMB A LOT MORE, EVEN KUMANDAY IS AWESOME.

GUALÍ, 3.850 METERS ABOVE THE SEA LEVEL, AND LATER WE WERE ABLE TO OBSERVE LOMA DOWN THE PERPETUAL FOOTPRINTS, LANGUAGES OF MUD, WHICH LEFT THE AVALANCHE OF 1985, WHEN THE RUIZ EXPELLED THEM FROM THEIR BOWELS STONE AND MUD IN THE CATASTROPHIC ERUPTION THAT DESTROYED THE POPULATION OF ARMERO.

TO 4,100 METERS A.S.L. IS THE POSITION OF CONTROL ENTRANCE TO THE NATURAL PARK. AS IT PROGRESSED, THE SCENERY WAS EVEN MORE EXOTIC. IT WAS TOTAL QUIET, AND AS IN A VALLEY LUNAR THESE THAT SHOW THE CERRO GUALÍ.

MEASURES OF RETREAT OF THE FRONT GLACIAR.5PELÍCULAS ON THE SPACE, WAVES OF MIST COVERED HUGE ROCK FORMATIONS THAT, SUDDENLY, WERE ESCAPING FROM THE DARKNESS.

• THE DECISION CONTINUOUS DATA IS NOT EASY, SAY RESEARCHERS, IS BECAUSE DURING THE DECADE LEADING OBSERVING THE BEHAVIOUR OF GLACIERS HAVE HAD TO FACE OBSTACLES SUCH AS EXTENDED PERMISSIONS (THREE DAYS A PART OF THE NATURAL PARKS TO ENTER THE AREA AND FIVE TO GET A TRUCK TO GET TO THE PLACE) THAT HINDER THE EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE OF THE STATIONS AND TIMELY CARE OF A TECHNICAL FAILURE, IN CASE OF NO-SHOW.

• PARTIAL CONCLUSIONS POINT OUT THAT THE MAIN FACTOR THAT INFLUENCE THE MELTING OF THE GLACIERS IS CLIMATE CHANGE. NOT HOWEVER, THE SOLUTION ALSO DEPENDS ON ACTIONS THAT FORWARD THE HUMAN BEING TO IMPACT LESS ECOSYSTEMS, SUCH AS BY EXAMPLE, MINIMIZE EMISSIONS OF CO2 TO THE ATMOSPHERE. MORE LOCALLY, THE PEOPLE WHO BENEFIT FROM THE WATER RESOURCE ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HIRING OF A MORE REASONABLE RESOURCES SUCH AS WATER AND ELECTRICITY.

• I'M GOING TO VISIT THE NEVADO DEL KUMANDAY. IN THESE SITES IN SPITE OF THESE CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE FUTURE, THE MAIN GLACIERS, LITTLE BY LITTLE WILL CONTINUE DECREASING THE AMOUNT OF SNOW. AND THERE ARE NO REVERSE GEAR FOR THIS DRAMATIC SITUATION.

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