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And in Austria, some people just blew up part of a glacier to make room for a ski tournament. (sorry, no english source)
I don't think that the glacier as an intact sheet of ice has value so much as it just is a particularly-visible sign of global warming, because small temperature changes to large masses of ice that are bounded by the melting temperature of water produce large changes to that mass.
afaik they are important for the water supply of rivers in spring
I expect that the ice will still be melting wherever they put it. And according to the article, what they put in its place is snow on crushed rock, so that'll probably be melting too.
The problem is that this melts in a few weeks in spring.
So we get flooding in spring and drought in autumn - instead of a nice steady flow from early spring to late autumn. The glaciers are irreplaceable.