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33pc of ice in Hindu Kush to melt by 2100: study |
2019-02-06 |
[DAWN] At least a third of the ice in the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush will thaw this century as temperatures rise, disrupting river flows vital for growing crops from China to India, scientists said on Monday. Yup. Just you wait and see. Vast glaciers make the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region ‐ which is home to the world’s highest peaks topped by Mount Everest and K2 ‐ a "third pole" behind Antarctica and the Arctic region, they said. "This is the climate crisis you haven’t heard of," said Philippus Wester, who led the report. "Global warming is on track to transform the frigid, glacier-covered mountain peaks of the HKH cutting across eight countries to bare rocks in a little less than a century," said Wester of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). |
Posted by:Fred |
#8 |
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2019-02-06 10:30 |
#7 And the Chicago area, per forecasters, should have woken up to "up to 1/2-inch of ice" on everything this morning. Hysteria sells. |
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2019-02-06 10:23 |
#6 But 2350. PIMF. |
Posted by: Bobby 2019-02-06 09:49 |
#5 Link, two pages Not 2035, nut 2350. So the IPCC was cherry picking 20-year old data, taking it out of context, and then mis-quoting it by 315 years. Figures don’t lie, but clever people do abuse them. |
Posted by: Bobby 2019-02-06 09:48 |
#4 File this in the trash next to Al Gore's claim that the Artic would be ice-free by now (and all of those other predictions that never panned out). |
Posted by: Raj 2019-02-06 09:40 |
#3 I think they've been smoking some Kush |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-06 09:17 |
#2 This is the climate crisis you haven’t heard of Umm, wasn't there a whole big kefuffle about this a few years ago with that Indian guy and the IPCC? |
Posted by: AlanC 2019-02-06 09:11 |
#1 In other news, it continues to snow in the Himalayas, adding to the glaciers at the top end, making them flow down to where they melt. |
Posted by: ed in texas 2019-02-06 08:35 |