WSJ: Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows

[abu afak]

While everyone is focusing on Antarctica and Greenland, S Asia could lose much of it's Ag due to AGW.

""Glaciers across the Himalayas are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

Avalanches, flooding and other effects of the accelerating loss of ice imperil residents in India, Nepal and Bhutan and threaten to disrupt agriculture for hundreds of millions of people across South Asia, according to the researchers. And since water from melting glaciers contributes to sea-level rise, glacial ice loss in the Himalayas also adds to the threat of inundation and related problems faced by coastal communities around the world.

“This part of the world is changing faster than perhaps anybody realized,” said Jonathan Carrivick, a University of Leeds glaciologist and the co-author of a paper detailing the research published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports. “It’s not just that the Himalayas are changing really fast, it’s that they’re changing ever faster.”
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The new finding comes as there is scientific consensus that ice loss from glaciers and polar ice sheets results from rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels."..."
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Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows

Glaciers across the region are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

www.wsj.com

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Soot from India and China to blame

 

[abu afak]

Soot from India and China to blame

Not the reason just as it isn't elsewhere
Only soot is your posts.
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[Calypso Jones]

oh here we go again. What is AGW... Accelerated?

I'm sure these folk have experienced this type of thing before. Sun cycles you know. Anyway..maybe it will keep a lot of potential climbers and dead men off the mountain and eleviate the trash problem and the dead bodies. The run off from that mountain pollutes the water below it. everything is temporary.

 

[surada]

Soot from India and China to blame

Your knee jerk reaction is always to blame the other.

 

[surada]

oh here we go again. What is AGW... Accelerated?

I'm sure these folk have experienced this type of thing before. Sun cycles you know. Anyway..maybe it will keep a lot of potential climbers and dead men off the mountain and eleviate the trash problem and the dead bodies. The run off from that mountain pollutes the water below it. everything is temporary.

That mountain????????

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Here we go again......

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

While everyone is focusing on Antarctica and Greenland, S Asia could lose much of it's Ag due to AGW.

""Glaciers across the Himalayas are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

Avalanches, flooding and other effects of the accelerating loss of ice imperil residents in India, Nepal and Bhutan and threaten to disrupt agriculture for hundreds of millions of people across South Asia, according to the researchers. And since water from melting glaciers contributes to sea-level rise, glacial ice loss in the Himalayas also adds to the threat of inundation and related problems faced by coastal communities around the world.

“This part of the world is changing faster than perhaps anybody realized,” said Jonathan Carrivick, a University of Leeds glaciologist and the co-author of a paper detailing the research published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports. “It’s not just that the Himalayas are changing really fast, it’s that they’re changing ever faster.”
[.....]
The new finding comes as there is scientific consensus that ice loss from glaciers and polar ice sheets results from rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels."..."
[.....]
[.....]

Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows

Glaciers across the region are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

www.wsj.com

So,
Shouldn't you be booking your ticket to China to protest there since China is the worlds biggest polluter and CO2 gas producer...BY A LONG SHOT ???

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Your knee jerk reaction is always to blame the other.

Tell us how American CO2 is oh so powerful - on a per capita basis because...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So,
Shouldn't you be booking your ticket to China to protest there since China is the worlds biggest polluter and CO2 gas producer...BY A LONG SHOT ???

Yes! Let me know when he chains himself to the Chinese Embassy in protest

 

[ding]

While everyone is focusing on Antarctica and Greenland, S Asia could lose much of it's Ag due to AGW.

""Glaciers across the Himalayas are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

Avalanches, flooding and other effects of the accelerating loss of ice imperil residents in India, Nepal and Bhutan and threaten to disrupt agriculture for hundreds of millions of people across South Asia, according to the researchers. And since water from melting glaciers contributes to sea-level rise, glacial ice loss in the Himalayas also adds to the threat of inundation and related problems faced by coastal communities around the world.

“This part of the world is changing faster than perhaps anybody realized,” said Jonathan Carrivick, a University of Leeds glaciologist and the co-author of a paper detailing the research published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports. “It’s not just that the Himalayas are changing really fast, it’s that they’re changing ever faster.”
[.....]
The new finding comes as there is scientific consensus that ice loss from glaciers and polar ice sheets results from rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels."..."
[.....]
[.....]

Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows

Glaciers across the region are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

www.wsj.com

That's what happens in an interglacial cycle.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Glaciers across the Himalayas are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

How fast did it shrink during the Little Ice Age?

 

[ding]

The new finding comes as there is scientific consensus that ice loss from glaciers and polar ice sheets results from rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels."..."

Scientists come to opposite conclusions about the causes of recent climate change depending on which datasets they consider. For instance, the panels on the left lead to the conclusion that global temperature changes since the mid-19th century have been mostly due to human-caused emissions, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), i.e., the conclusion reached by the UN IPCC reports. In contrast, the panels on the right lead to the exact opposite conclusion, i.e., that the global temperature changes since the mid-19th century have been mostly due to natural cycles, chiefly long-term changes in the energy emitted by the Sun.

Both sets of panels are based on published scientific data, but each uses different datasets and assumptions. On the left, it is assumed that the available temperature records are unaffected by the urban heat island problem, and so all stations are used, whether urban or rural. On the right, only rural stations are used. Meanwhile, on the left, solar output is modeled using the low variability dataset that has been chosen for the IPCC’s upcoming (in 2021/2022) 6th Assessment Reports. This implies zero contribution from natural factors to the long-term warming. On the right, solar output is modeled using a high variability dataset used by the team in charge of NASA’s ACRIM sun-monitoring satellites. This implies that most, if not all, of the long-term temperature changes are due to natural factors.

Here is the link to the full paper.
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[Calypso Jones]

scientists know eveythang don't they. Just ax them.

 

[wamose]

This is jive. The WSJ just wants our climate idiots to throw a few trillion dollars at the problem. I'm not buying this any more than I'm buying Fauci's professional opinions. Climate change and the pandemic are both excuses to rob taxpayer money.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Hmmmm.

Himalaya's Heat Pump | Earthdata

Publication from NASA ESDIS describing research uses of data from EOSDIS - polluted air over Asia is changing patterns in remote mountain ranges.

earthdata.nasa.gov

Maybe not.

If there is a warming problem China and India need to do something.

 

[abu afak]

That's what happens in an interglacial cycle.

Have any ever happened even close to this fast? (and paralleled GHG explosion by humans)
Hint: no.
Bye.
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[Toddsterpatriot]

Have any ever happened even close to this fast?

How fast is it happening now?
How fast is it supposed to happen?

 

[ding]

Have any ever happened even close to this fast? (and paralleled GHG explosion by humans)
Hint: no.
Bye.
`

Yes. Faster actually. D-O events. Glacial to interglacial temperature swings of 5C in several decades.

Climate fluctuations and environmental uncertainty are hallmarks of the bipolar glaciated world we live in. Been that way for the past 3 million years. This is especially true for the northern hemisphere.

 

[JGalt]

While everyone is focusing on Antarctica and Greenland, S Asia could lose much of it's Ag due to AGW.

""Glaciers across the Himalayas are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

Avalanches, flooding and other effects of the accelerating loss of ice imperil residents in India, Nepal and Bhutan and threaten to disrupt agriculture for hundreds of millions of people across South Asia, according to the researchers. And since water from melting glaciers contributes to sea-level rise, glacial ice loss in the Himalayas also adds to the threat of inundation and related problems faced by coastal communities around the world.

“This part of the world is changing faster than perhaps anybody realized,” said Jonathan Carrivick, a University of Leeds glaciologist and the co-author of a paper detailing the research published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports. “It’s not just that the Himalayas are changing really fast, it’s that they’re changing ever faster.”
[.....]
The new finding comes as there is scientific consensus that ice loss from glaciers and polar ice sheets results from rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels."..."
[.....]
[.....]

Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows

Glaciers across the region are melting at an extraordinary rate, with new research showing that the vast ice sheets there shrank 10 times faster in the past 40 years than during the previous seven centuries.

www.wsj.com

Yay!! Fresh water!

1. Go to the Himalayan and buy up all that cool wet water.

2. Bottle it up with a fancy label on it.

3. ????

4. Profit!!!