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140 are Missing After Glacier Breaks in India’s Himalayas
Indiawest ^ | 6 FEB 2020 | BISWAJEET BANERJEE and RISHABH R. JAIN/

Posted on 02/08/2021 5:15:52 PM PST by nickcarraway

Indian rescue crews struggled to reach trapped victims Feb. 7 after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off and released a torrent of water and debris that slammed into two hydroelectric plants. At least nine people were killed and 140 were missing in a disaster experts said appeared to point to global warming.

Video from India’s northern state of Uttarakhand showed the muddy, concrete-gray floodwaters tumbling through a valley and surging into a dam, breaking it into pieces with little resistance before roaring on downstream. The flood turned the countryside into what looked like an ash-colored moonscape.

More than 2,000 members of the military, paramilitary groups and police took part in the search-and-rescue operation, including soldiers expert in mountaineering, working into the night under bright halogen lights, authorities said.

(Excerpt) Read more at indiawest.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakescience; glacier; globalwarming; himalayas; india
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1 posted on 02/08/2021 5:15:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 02/08/2021 5:16:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Ah, yes. Globull warming. Glaciers have never calved before.


3 posted on 02/08/2021 5:18:56 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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It is caused by global warming. Which is called an inter-glacial period by real scientists.

It is definitely not caused by Greta Thunberg GlobalClimateWarmingChange promoted by politicians, celebrities and #FakeScientists who get paid to lie by the former.


4 posted on 02/08/2021 5:24:51 PM PST by TigersEye (Everyone knows)
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♫ When the glacier breaks, I’ll have no place to stay ♪


5 posted on 02/08/2021 5:25:15 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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Yikes


6 posted on 02/08/2021 5:31:05 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: crusty old prospector

I just have to agree. Glaciers have been calving since the last ice age.


7 posted on 02/08/2021 5:35:55 PM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent.)
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Those poor souls in that path. Prayers.


8 posted on 02/08/2021 5:37:35 PM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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Natural catastrophes are endemic to the Himalayas. Glaciers, breaking, horrible. Just thank God the Himalayan wind didn't break; it'd be Bhopal all over again.

9 posted on 02/08/2021 5:38:55 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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10 posted on 02/08/2021 5:42:32 PM PST by EEGator
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You got yer Aftonian, yer Yarmouthian, and yer Sangamonian.


11 posted on 02/08/2021 5:44:42 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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Too bad it didn’t wipe out one of their Shooshal Security call centers.


12 posted on 02/08/2021 5:54:21 PM PST by Noumenon (As long as you have a rifle, you still have a vote. KTF)
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I’m old but I only go back to the beginning of the current Holocene inter-glacial.
At least that’s all I’ll admit to. :)


13 posted on 02/08/2021 5:58:23 PM PST by TigersEye (Everyone knows)
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Will be another episode of Engineering Disasters.

Not compensating for natural calving of the up stream glacier which is the water source of the hydroelectric project.

14 posted on 02/08/2021 6:00:18 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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That’s terrifying.

God help those poor people in its path.


15 posted on 02/08/2021 6:23:38 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Global warming has to be real, that’s why this week will be our coldest since 1985 from what the weathermen are saying.


16 posted on 02/08/2021 6:37:26 PM PST by millerph
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I’m in the natural gas bidness so I am glad that people are finally burning some product. We got plenty more to sell.


17 posted on 02/08/2021 6:45:25 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Thommas

Who melted the glaciers from last ice age? Chicago area was covered with many miles high glacier ice.

Was it the cave man burning too many twigs caused melting of those glaciers which then formed the largest body of fresh water on earth, now known as the Great Lakes?

Blame the cave man cuz there were no SUV’s running around then.


18 posted on 02/08/2021 6:52:01 PM PST by entropy12 (It is NOT WHO VOTES, it is who COUNTS THE VOTES wins elections...paraphrasing Joe Stalin)
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The snow melts each spring, I blame that on global warming. Praise Prophet Gore.


19 posted on 02/08/2021 7:00:05 PM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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If the glacier hadn’t been melting for 100s of years already, would there have been a river to dam?


20 posted on 02/08/2021 7:25:51 PM PST by Hypo2
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