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Climate voices
Top image: 1928, *Historic Image* Original photograph taken in 1928 of the Upsala Glacier. Bottom image: January 2004, Composite image of Upsala Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina.
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The real meaning of climate change can be grasped not by scientific charts and equations, but by the stories of those who are living through it, grappling with its implications, and struggling to find ways to halt it.
Discover the real face of climate change on our recent trips to Patagonia and Svalbard.
Patagonia
Jorge, 71, crossed the Patagonian icefields during the summer of 1955 as part an expedition sponsored by the London Royal Society. He returned to the glaciers with Greenpeace in 2004:
The transformation was so acute that Jorge didn't initially recognise the glacier and was shocked by the speed of the melt. When he visited the glacier at the age of 21, previously the ice had covered the area where the base camp was now situated.
"The scene has changed dramatically. It was completely different - parts have disappeared. The structure of the glacier has changed in a chaotic way. It's rough and it has retreated so much, I can hardly believe it. Where the glacier extended 50 years ago, washed and slippery rocks have now emerged."
