Posted on 02/05/2019 8:00:36 AM PST by bgill
One-third of Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, threatening water sources for 1.9 billion people, even if current efforts to reduce climate change succeed, an assessment warns. If global efforts to curb climate change fail, the impact could be far worse: a loss of two-thirds of the region's glaciers by 2100, said the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment released Monday by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. "Global warming is on track to transform the frigid, glacier-covered mountain peaks of the Hindu Kush Himalayas cutting across eight countries to bare rocks in a little less than a century," said Philippus Wester of the center, who led the report. The five-year study looked at the effects of climate change on a region that cuts across Asia through Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The area, which includes the world's tallest mountain peaks, has glaciers that feed into river systems including the Indus, Ganges, Yangtze, Irrawaddy and Mekong. The assessment said that the impact of the melting could range from flooding from the increased runoff to increased air pollution from black carbon and dust deposited on the glaciers.
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Doomed?
Collect the water during the Monsoons ,all it does now is wash out the stink
Replaces all of the water lost through fracking.
Clearly this is punishment for the world allowing Trump to be elected.
Damn, I’m already thirsty...
-1.9 billionth person
We’ve gone from save the whales to save the glaciers....
Shocked I tell you shocked. You mean glaciers melt? Isn’t that what glaciers do? Otherwise wouldn’t the be called Mountains?
Oh My! Where will the Migou ( abominable snow man)go.
What a bunch of freaks, as if mankind can “save” glaciers.
Take it on the noose punks and adapt as all of our ancestors have done throughout time.!
“Third Of Himalayan glaciers can no longer be saved”
Just turn up the juice on those shock paddles and hit him again.
Well, if that is the case then they will finally be able to recover all of the bodies left from failed attempts to climb Mt. Everest.
They’ll be back. And some folks wil not be happy.
They’ll be back. And some folks wil not be happy.
Saved? What saved? When did Man start “saving” glaciers like they were some endangered species? inflammatory choice of words targeting emotions of the weak minded.
So, all the snow will melt.
That just leaves more fresh ground for the English to plant their tater trees in.
It’s like that old saying,
“One door doesn’t close but that somebody kicks you in the family jewels.”
Or something like that.
5 years doesn’t even register on a glacial timescale.
Hmmmm! Double tap.
I always wondered, since the Global Warming scientists assume that the Earth has been static for the past 1,000,000 years, where did the Himalayan Sea go?
Yep, sky is falling.
does this mean we have more than 12 years til the planet dies? paging Algore
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