Asia's rapidly shrinking glaciers could fuel future conflicts

[Crick]

Asia s Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers Could Fuel Future Conflicts - NBC News

"The glaciers in Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost more than a quarter of their total mass over the past 50 years — a rate of loss about four times greater than the global average during that time, new research shows."

"The scientists reconstructed how glaciers across the Tian Shan changed in mass from 1961 to 2012. They found that the region's glaciers shrank at the rapid rate of about 5.4 billion tons per year on average.

The researchers linked the decline to increased summer temperatures in the region, possibly due to climate change."
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The root cause of all large scale human conflict is competition for resources. Water is a resource and its supply is being affected by global warming.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Soot

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Asia s Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers Could Fuel Future Conflicts - NBC News

"The glaciers in Asia's Tian Shan mountains have lost more than a quarter of their total mass over the past 50 years — a rate of loss about four times greater than the global average during that time, new research shows."

"The scientists reconstructed how glaciers across the Tian Shan changed in mass from 1961 to 2012. They found that the region's glaciers shrank at the rapid rate of about 5.4 billion tons per year on average.

The researchers linked the decline to increased summer temperatures in the region, possibly due to climate change."
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The root cause of all large scale human conflict is competition for resources. Water is a resource and its supply is being affected by global warming.

Don't melting glaciers make fresh water?

 

[Dot Com]

certainly deniers can agree on this?

 

[mamooth]

Don't melting glaciers make fresh water?

Frank, note the word "future" in the thread title. Melting glaciers make fresh water, until the glacier is gone.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Don't melting glaciers make fresh water?

Frank, note the word "future" in the thread title. Melting glaciers make fresh water, until the glacier is gone.

Oh so it's better to keep the fresh water locked up in the glacier.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

 

[Old Rocks]

Silly ass, the snow on the glaciers is stored and released during the summer, and the people on the rivers the glacier feeds, have water to irrigate their crops in the summer. Without the glaciers, when the snow is gone, the water is gone. And the crops die.

 

[skookerasbil]

This kind of stuff is exactly why the alarmist contingent has shit the bit in recent years........the public has completely tuned out this bomb throwing prediction crap because they saw it over and over and over and none of it happened!! In my field, its called a desensitization process........one becomes numb to stimulus.........stops effecting behavior.

Human behavior is human behavior. People will respond to stimulus if it is positively reinforced.........and therein lies the problem for the alarmists. 100% certainty. These people cant help themselves.........constant barrage of gloom and doom, none of which comes to pass. Its very much like the owner of a football team promising a winning team year after year yet they never make the playoffs. Guess what? People stop going to the games. duh.[URL='http://s42.photobucket.com/user/baldaltima/media/duh_smiley.gif.html'][/URL]


Most of the alarmists are real strong with hard science thinking but dang do they suck trying to deal with abstracts.

 

[jc456]

Don't melting glaciers make fresh water?

Frank, note the word "future" in the thread title. Melting glaciers make fresh water, until the glacier is gone.

well if it never melts, how does a society get fresh water out of it?