Three Himalayan glaciers have been shrinking over the past 40 years due to global warming and two of them, located in humid regions and on lower altitudes in central and east Nepal, may disappear in the future, researchers in Japan said on Tuesday.
The Himalayas is an enormous mountain range consisting of about 15,000 glaciers and some of the world’s highest peaks, including the 8,848m-high Mount Everest and K2.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- Making Themselves Irrelevant
- Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- COP29 Preview
- UK Labour To Save The Planet
- A Giant Eyesore
- CO2 To Destroy The World In Ten Years
- Rats Jumping Off The Climate Ship
- UK Labour To Save The Planet
- “False Claims” And Outright Lies”
- Michael Mann Cancelled By CNN
- Spoiled Children
- Great Lakes Storm Of November 11, 1835
- Harris To Win Iowa
- Angry Democrats
- November 9, 1913 Storm
- Science Magazine Explains Trump Supporters
- Obliterating Bill Gates
- Scientific American Editor In Chief Speaks Out
- The End Of Everything
- Harris To Win In A Blowout
- Election Results
- “Glaciers, Icebergs Melt As World Gets Warmer”
- “falsely labeling”
- Vote For Change By Electing The Incumbent
- Protesting Too Much Snow
Recent Comments
- GW on A Giant Eyesore
- conrad ziefle on Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- Greg in NZ on Making Themselves Irrelevant
- arn on Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- Trevor on Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- czechlist on Michael Mann Predicts The Demise Of X
- arn on COP29 Preview
- arn on COP29 Preview
- conrad ziefle on COP29 Preview
- conrad ziefle on Making Themselves Irrelevant
Yawn, I enjoy getting people to look this stuff up for themselves. It’s the best antidote.
This is the subject that got me kicked off LGF (Little Green Footballs). Charles did not understand lapse rate and whenever glacier melt came up I wanted to know the altitude of the glacier and/or the freeze line. Some glaciers cannot melt from rising temperatures as they are above the freeze line. They may “melt” for other reasons but temperatures above 0 C will not be one of them.
This is a great example of bedwetting, but for the wrong reasons. India is still as we speak, slamming into Asia and the Himalayas are still growing.
The troubles at hand might include earthquakes and landslides, but worrying about snow at the tops of the mountains? Classic idiocy.
This begs an interesting thought … India smooshing into Asia with land piling up on top of other land must mean that the ocean is getting larger. Another sea-level negative feedback!
The Atlantic is getting larger and the Pacific is getting smaller. The India Plate is being pushed under the Asia plate by the Pacific Plate.
Glaciers have been shrinking since the region warmed out of the LIA in the early 1800s. The LIA caused a regrowth of glaciers that had all but disappeared during the MWP. If we were as warm as the MWP many glaciers that exist today would not exist.
Hey, besides all the good comments above, I was under the impression that we had been in an “interglacial” age for thousands of years and that glacial retreats had been going on for all that period. Is this not so?
I mean, we can’t have static climate — mother earth won’t play that game — so I would rather have glaciers retreat than advance. Would not everyone agree?
Due to long term variable weather patterns the glaciers have both shrunk and grown over the last 20,000 years. There has been considerable research in the Alps concerning this.
I lived in Germany in the seventies and spent alot of time in the Alps. At that time the glaciers were advancing and the villagers were quite concerned, remembering tales of the LIA glacier advances that destroyed homes and barns. As far as humanity in general is concerned, the less ice, the better.