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A few words on retreating Himalayan glaciers! Could it be true that the most glaciers located in Mount Everest region would disappear completely or drastically retreat within the current century due to gradual increase of the temperature level with climatic change that is being experienced by all living objects throughout the world now? Researchers says that the glaciers in the Himalayan and Hindu Kush regions where world’s tallest mountain peaks including Mount Everest are located would be drastically affected by the ongoing Climate change which is man made. The signals that are now being received by the inhabitants of these areas support what the researchers have been predicting so long! More than thirty thousand sq, km of Himalayan Region is covered by the glaciers. This particular region has the largest amount of glaciers after the Polar Ice Caps. Some of these glaciers constantly feeding the great rivers like the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Indus, the Yangtze, the Yellow, the Salween and the Mekong since time immemorial! Increase in the temperature would affect estimated 5500 glaciers of these particular regions gradually but surely. The upward trend in temperature change would reduce these glaciers’ volume 70%-99% by the end of the Twenty First Century! And if the temperature level continues to go upward gradually, then we shall observe continued and accelerated mass loss from the affected glaciers. More than two thirds of the Himalayan glaciers are reportedly retreating rapidly due to man made reasons causing current climate change. The global climate change has pushed temperatures in the Himalayan mountain glaciers significantly close to melting points! The impacts of fast retreating glaciers everywhere in the world would be devastating for all sorts of life forms. While the river discharge of water from these glaciers would increase in the short term causing frequent floods, in the long run water supplies in these regions will be in great peril and the impact to agriculture for both will be immensely felt by the people living in these regions. The impacts to agriculture could be as follows: (a) Soil loss due to soil erosion, (b) Landslides due to repeated floods, (c) Temperature increase. (d) Other The rivers mentioned at above are the life lines of the people of the countries of these regions namely India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and many other East Asian Countries. It is impossible even to imagine what would happen to the billions of inhabitants of these countries if the glaciers disappear completely from the Himalayan Region due to global warming which may melt them completely! I feel that my readers have right to know why have I decided to upload this particular blog on global warming when leaders of some of the most powerful nations of the world do not give the problem any importance. Here is my answer: I live in one of the countries of the Himalayan region already affected by global warming to some extent. I have also been requested online recently by one of my relatives living abroad to share the under noted message posted on a yellow note sheet (pic #2) with people I know. Thank you all. Sources: Various articles on internet.           |
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It is high time for all of us to ponder and decide what to do next!
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You are absolutely right, Karin. It will be too late for the human race and for all living objects of this planet when the devastating effects of global warming would be recognizable to those who are responsible for creating the situation and matters most now to take corrective steps to reverse the situation! They will find no place in this earth to run and hide to avoid the punishment that they deserve from the nature for destroying it mindlessly! We must join hands and try to snatch away our future from those who are bent upon to destroy everything for their temporary personal benefits!
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Look, A lot of people on this site do not believe in global warming and do not support those people trying to slow it down. Here in Europe we are observing the regression of numerous glaciers and more flooding than usual. It's situations like this one that make me glad I am old and won't be here to see the impending disasters.
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Look, A lot of people on this site do not believe in global warming and do not support those people trying to slow it down. Here in Europe we are observing the regression of numerous glaciers and more flooding than usual. It's situations like this one that make me glad I am old and won't be here to see the impending disasters. There are people in this world who accept hard realities only when they become unable to deny the existence of such realities around them! This site is no different. Here also many members may not believe in Global warming. But their denials would not stop the calamities to happen around them one day. Our ancestors left a livable planet for us to live and prosper. But what kind of earth we would be leaving for our next generation? Is it not therefore now high time for all human beings to study the situation and then take corrective steps at least to slow down the disaster? Thanks for taking interest on the subject matter of this blog.
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middleprong1, I am an optimist. I always believe that glasses are half full everywhere in the world.They are not half empty! Perhaps, it is too late for the humans to stop the global warming from happening but we can surely slow it down if we try to do it together everywhere in this world! Thank you so much for taking interest on my blog.
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LookLook we have the Columbia Ice fields in Alberta between Jasper and Banff. They are awesome to visit but like your Himalayans they are slowing melting because of global warming. It is sad to see this happening. I visited the ice field a number of years ago and they had markers showing how far they were receding.
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LookLook we have the Columbia Ice fields in Alberta between Jasper and Banff. They are awesome to visit but like your Himalayans they are slowing melting because of global warming. It is sad to see this happening. I visited the ice field a number of years ago and they had markers showing how far they were receding. Thanks for your post. The devastating effects of global warming could now be felt to some extent everywhere in the world. Though the inevitable is bound to happen one day yet we humans could surely slow it down by taking steps as suggested by the scientists studying the phenomena! Nature takes her revenge. It is not fragile. “She is strong and packs a serious counter-punch.” I strongly believe that it is on the way and its revenge could be sudden and brutal too.
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