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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We won’t have to pass through the mines of Moria any longer.
There you go.
On my list of concerns for humanity, Himalayan glacier melt is number 5,361 from the top.
I think Botox plays a part in their theory making. This compulsion to keep everything the same seems pathological.
Are there any aquifers under the glaciers? Can’t India build some desalination plants? They could sell Bay Of Bengal Sea Salt and make a fortune.
Yetis will change the color of their fur.
I know it.
Why must people always only see the dark clouds when the silver lining is right there raining on them like a giant with a weak bladder?
So the snow melts.
So what?
Look for the bright side.
They cant track the Abominable Snowman.
Hell finally find the peace and quiet hes always longed for.
Besides, you can’t say ‘Himalayan’ anymore. It’s now to be ‘Theiralayan’.
BUT ... doesn't the glacier have to melt to enable the people drink it?
"Save the glaciers"
"Kill the babies"
Leftism, under all of its' brand names, is an evil & psychotic disorder
Clemson Professor Calls For Human Extinction To Protect Environment, January 28, 2019.
A Clemson philosophy argued recently that he wants all humans to die off as a punishment for their treatment of animals and the environment.
Zimalayan?
By the time we know if this will actually happen, the people who talked about it will likely be off this mortal coil.
Could it be however that Himalaya’s glacier loss will be Antarctica’s ice gain?
THEY JUST ADMITTED THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW.
I thought it was SETTLED SCIENCE.
What have these humans offended against? We need to answer that question first.
If it’s God, then we have completely opened the door to theology. If it’s other opinions of men, then ha! Those are fungible.
Third of Himalayan glaciers can no longer be saved: study
Now we don’t have to worry. Party on!
Of course, no one reading this BS will be around to confirm it...
Yeah, recall how Erlich’s Population Bomb said hundreds of millions would be starving by the 1970s, and it was too late to stop it.
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