Giant Postcard On Swiss Alps Glacier Sends Kids' Climate Change Messages

Weather Channel - Ron Brackett

• The huge postcard was rolled out on the Switzerland's Aletsch Glacier, which is melting.
• It had more than 125,000 individual drawings and messages.
• Organizers hoped to set a world record. 

An aerial view shows a massive collage of 125,000 drawings and messages from children from around the world about climate change seen rolled out on the Aletsch Glacier at an altitude of 11,155 feet near the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps on Friday, November 16, 2018. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

More than 125,000 drawings and notes from children around the world were put together on a glacier in the Swiss Alps on Friday to send a big message.
The message: Fight climate change and help the environment.
"They are asking us and their leaders to take action to preserve the planet Earth for them to have a future on it," said Oceane Dayer, founder of Swiss Youth for Climate.

Kids Leave Climate Change Message in Swiss Alps

125,000 drawings come together to send a large message about climate change in the Swiss Alps.

The mosaic laid out on Switzerland's Aletsch Glacier measured 26,910 square feet, about half the size of a U.S. football field. It was organized by a non-profit conservation group called the WAVE Foundation and the Swiss government's Agency for Development and Cooperation.
The Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps, and it is melting at an alarming rate. Losing nearly 40 feet of ice a year, the glacier could be gone by the end of the century, experts warn.

The postcards bore messages of efforts to fight climate change and help the environment: limiting water use, promises to use public transportation, or recycling old goods before buying new ones among them. They covered an area the size of half a U.S. football field. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

The children's postcards were pinned down with clamps and nets, and laminated in long glued-together strips to protect them from the ice and snow. Organizers said they hoped to set a Guinness World Record for the "postcard with the most contributions." (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

The project's aim was to "boost a global youth climate movement ahead of the next global climate conference (COP24) in Poland," next month, according to the WAVE Foundation.
Organizers said the 125,000 individual postcards set a Guinness World Record for the "postcard with the most contributions."
However, according to the Associated Press, Guinness said the attempt has not been registered. The current record is only 16,000.

The giant postcard was rolled out on the Aletsch Glacier near the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps. Organizers want to launch a "global climate change youth movement" to play into the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Katowice, Poland, known as COP24, next month. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

From overhead, messages spelled out on the card were "Stop global warming" and "#1.5C," a nod to the goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

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