Global warming undressed

If glaciers represent the key indicator of global warming, then 600 naked people standing atop a melting one must mean something. On August 18, the large gathering of nude humans braved 50-degree weather to pose for a photo shoot on Switzerland’s Aletsch Glacier. The idea was to symbolically connect the vulnerability of a glacier with that of the human body. Aletsch, the largest glacier in the Alps, shrunk 377 feet in the last two years and Greenpeace, who organized the photo event, warned that if the current pace of climate change continues, most of the 1,800 glaciers in Switzerland will disappear by 2080.