Married couple from Bristol attract awe and abuse on X with photos that show ‘staggering’ changes in the Alps

A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in the Swiss Alps almost exactly 15 years apart, in a pair of photos that highlight the speed with which global heating is melting glaciers.

Duncan Porter, a software developer from Bristol, posted photos that were taken in the same spot at the Rhone glacier in August 2009 and August 2024. The white ice that filled the background has shrunk to reveal grey rock. A once-small pool at the bottom, out of sight in the original, has turned into a vast green lake.

“Not gonna lie, it made me cry,” Porter said in a viral post on social media platform X on Sunday night.

  • @finestnothingEnglish
    49•4 months ago

    He is partially right - there are people making a lot of money from climate change… Or at least from causing it

    • @[email protected]English
      12•4 months ago

      To be fair there are also a lot of ‘green’ company scams out there too. Grifters are everywhere

      • @SLVRDRGNEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        Yup, and it has a name - Greenwashing.

      • @ripcordEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        I would say “some”, not “a lot”. Unless you know about way more “green” scams than I’m aware of.

    • AmandaEnglish
      5•4 months ago

      That’s capitalism for you: one company makes money creating the problem and another fixing it! It’s double-pumped!