Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Merida Venezuela where I stayed for 2 1/2 weeks in 1998, now lost its glaciers due to global warming

  algae can sequester 100 gigatons of cO2 per year. Interview Sir David King or double Ph.D. marine biologist Raffael Jovine - they are both focused on algae as the only means to stop abrupt global warming. China had three scientists just publish how near-ocean algae farms can sequester 100 gigatons of CO2 per year. 80% of coal and oil is from algae. Dr. William Rees mentioned photosynthesis is the origin of negative entropy on Earth to build the biosphere. algae is already blooming - toxic algae or kelp. Algae is the future of life on Earth - one way or another. Algae has been on Earth for over 3 billion years. We can embrace the algae or pretend algae is not the future and the algae will take over anyway.

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/communities-and-ecosystems-in-venezuela-learn-to-adapt-to-life-after-glaciers/

I never visited the glaciers directly - in fact I didn't even know Merida was known for "eternal snow." 

At 4,925 meters (16,158 feet), Humboldt still has a glacier — for now. In 2023, scientists demoted the ever-shrinking glacier, La Corona, covering an area barely larger than two football fields, to ice field status.

Venezuela has become the first tropical country to lose all its glaciers.

 My friend who hosted me in Merida was close friends with a "rock climber" - but in fact they were mountaineers!

 “People used to come here to see the snow. Many mountaineers used to spend the night here to acclimatize and then climb the glaciers, but now there is no more snow and that’s why they don’t come here as much,” La Cruz says.

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