Guest essay by Eric Worrall
If you thought the “Voodoo Science” Himalayan glacier crisis died when its main backer, former IPCC head and alleged sex pest Rajendra Pachauri was forced to resign, think again; the glacier crisis is back.
A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report
Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion people
At least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt due to climate change, according to a landmark report, with serious consequences for almost 2 billion people.
Even if carbon emissions are dramatically and rapidly cut and succeed in limiting global warming to 1.5C, 36% of the glaciers along in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya range will have gone by 2100. If emissions are not cut, the loss soars to two-thirds, the report found.
The glaciers are a critical water store for the 250 million people who live in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region, and 1.65 billion people rely on the great rivers that flow from the peaks into India, Pakistan, China and other nations.
“This is the climate crisis you haven’t heard of,” said Philippus Wester of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod), who led the report. “In the best of possible worlds, if we get really ambitious [in tackling climate change], even then we will lose one-third of the glaciers and be in trouble. That for us was the shocking finding.”
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The full report is available here.
The organisations behind the glacier crisis report;
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Kathmandu Nepal
- Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies Dhaka Bangladesh
- Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal Kathmandu Nepal
- International Ecosystem Management Partnership United Nations Environment Programme and Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Central Himalayan Environment Association Nainital India
- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
Source: Authors and affiliations
No doubt the Chinese Academy of Science authors are right now lobbying President for life Xi Jinping to immediately shut down all Chinese coal stations, to save the Himalayan water catchment.
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Man made glaciers to combat man made climate change?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/22/the-ice-stupas-of-ladakh-solving-water-crisis-in-the-high-desert-of-himalaya
Aha, we are getting closer to Tibet, or rather Bon-Po as they call it – the home of animism, magic and the Dalai Lama’s version of necromancy, Budhism. Churchill’s Top of the World, the favored retreat of the SS.
Since Marco Polo’s Venetians and the Mongol Horde this area has tried to disrupt the Silk Road.
Right now, China’s BRI, Belt and Road Initiative, the New Solk Road, is giving the Venetian’s new home, City of London, a fit of rage. When Trump and Xi arrange a world without that medieval fossil, the rage reaches fever pitch.
Thr irrationality behind Gore et Al has its roots precisely there – the chickens are going home to roost!
I think you hit the nail, bonbon.
So even if we take dramatic action destroy the economies of the developed world, it won’t matter, but let’s do it anyway!
Good to know where people’s priorities lie.
Exactly the thinking of Gengis Khan – the only place he did’nt touch was Bon-Po (Tibet) – he adopted their necromancy while 30% of China was slaughtered or eliminated by disrupting infrastructure. Marco Polo served as finance ministed for the Khan in Samarkhand laundering English silver. Central banking is a Venetian invention.
Trump and Xi stand right now in the way of this neo-Venetian lurch. Follow the money trail – it actually leads to Bon-po.
“…to immediately shut down all Chinese coal stations..”
I can’t help but think of Luke Skywalker pleading to C3PO, but in this case, pleading to Xi
“Will you shut up and listen to me? Shut down all the garbage mashers er a coal plants on the detention level. will you? Do you copy? Shut down all the garbage mashers er a coal plants on the detention level.”
Let’s see a live feed of air quality in major subcontinent cities.
OK, suppose, just suppose, that this dire forecast is true. Would that not mean that precipitation would simply be spread more or less evenly throughout the year, and that rivers and streams would have a more or less constant flow, rather than being trapped in the form of ice for 6 or 8 months at a time?
” …36% of the glaciers along in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya range will have gone by 2100. If emissions are not cut, the loss soars to two-thirds, the report found.”
If emissions are not cut, my guess is the loss soars to 38%.
We’ve been here before, haven’t we? If they wanted to I’m sure they could easily write a model that indicates the Indian Monsoon will lead to long-term glacier expansion due to increased precipitation in the region. But they currently don’t want to, it’s that simple.
Either way, their uncertainty/measurement-error bars are going to be larger than any currently measured changes.
Bonpo are the early, pre-Buddhist peoples and religion of Tibet. You are ignorant to speak of that with which you are not familiar. The most profound knowledge, beyond your dreams, was stored in Bod, “Tibet”.
Right, and the SS went looking for it there. Came back with their insignia – a skull and crossbones.
Drinking yak milk from human craniums after the dinner call with human bones on the large gong – how quaint!
The fact that Yale’s Skull and Bones jolly club had the same rituals (not sure about yak milk though) tells something about the shared mentality of Genghis Khan and the malthusian warmunists.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/black-soot-is-main-cause-of-himalayan-glacier-melt-study-says
Another lying climate elephant in plain sight but ignored by the climate fanatics.
Technology to reduce soot and other forms of actual pollution from coal could have been made decades ago.
Instead we have the war on coal (the war on the poor) and the waste of funds in windmills.
Technology to vastly reduce soot could have been created and made easily available to the developing world by now.
The prosperity and benefits if abundant low cost power could be transforming the the world to the better.
Instead we still, thanks to the climate cult, have soot spewing away.
N.W. Himalaya’s rainfall pattern show variable climate swings between ~2,000 years ago & ~3,700 years ago. There were droughts in the region (about)~3,400 & ~3,200 & ~3,00 0& & ~2,500 to 2,400 years ago (worst) ; plus ~ 2,100 years ago.
The precipitation went down in the region creating a general trend from ~3,700 to ~3,000 years ago. An interlude of increased rain ran from ~3,000 to 2,800 years ago. Then again rainfall decreased from ~2,700 to 2,400 years ago; followed by another increase in rainfall from ~2,400 to 2,300 years ago. Then there was a decrease in rainfall from ~ 2,300 to ~2,100 years ago; which was followed (after the exceptionally dry ~2,100 year ago drought) by increased rainfall from ~2,100 to 2,000 years ago.
Presumably there were N.W. Himalayan glacial alterations during these periods. Over the E. Himalayas we see indications glaciers were undergoing changes .
The Bengal region where rivers meet the sea reveal that after our closest in time Glacial Maximum that shoreline changed coming inland ~250 to 300 kilometers by about ~7,000 years ago. An earlier estimated regional sea level rise occurred from ~ 11,500 to 9,000 years ago; this, in some sectors, amounted to ~60 meters higher sea level.
The monsoon rains had been increasing at the above & thus we can infer glaciers were more extensive. Apparently there was so much sediment coming from the mountains that deposited downstream the shoreline shifted back seaward for about ~ 100 kilometers.
People adapted. I think shall again.
No explanation yet as to how northern Illinois was buried under a mile of glacial ice about 25,000 years ago. Too long ago. Doesn’t count.
An utter confusion is reigning in the world’s mainstream climatoalarmist media regarding this old/new red herring.
The french newspapers Le Figaro, the New York Times, usatoday.com are speaking of TWO THIRDS of the Himalaya glaciers threatened by the warming while the Irish Times, The India Express, Scientific American, CNN.com etc… say that only ONE THIRD of these glaciers will disappear.
Exhillarating usual journalist’s bullshit
This is because the Former view the cup as 2/3 empty while the Latter view it as 2/3 full
It was a crap claim when it was debunked (first by skeptics) nearly ten years ago.
Nothing has changed in the data to change that with today’s claim.
Everybody seems to have missed the GOOD news here.
“Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005).”(IPCC AR4 WG2 Ch10, p. 493).
Seems like the trillions of climate change dollars have been well spent. We’ve now got an extra 65 years before Armageddon.
I had thought the ipcc had made a full retraction of that story. Are they running out of really really scary stuff?
https://tambonthongchai.com/2010/07/22/himalayan-glaciers-melting-again/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/01/05/climate-change-indias-rivers-running-dry/
“…Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion people…”
Well then it sounds like it’s “settled” then. So adapt.
As mentioned the Glaciers are just a buffer, equivalent to a Dam. The important factor is does it snow. If it does the glacier advances and of course the leading edge melts.
So if indeed the world is warming, even by such a small amount as the point seven, .7 C, since 1880, then we will have had evaporation. So the fact that the glaciers are still there since at least 1880, it must mean that it have been snowing.
MJE
good. one article here today says we need the water to cool power plants and we are using too much of it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=neolithic+sun+worship&oq=Neolithic+sun+&aqs=chrome.
The climate obsessed return to their failed predictions like dogs returning to their vomit.
And then there’s always
https://www.google.com/search?q=himalaya+glaciers+moulins&oq=Himalaya+glaciers+moulin&aqs=chrome.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Glacier+mills&oq=Glacier+mills&aqs=chrome.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Glacier+moulin+graphics&oq=Glacier+moulin+graphics&aqs=chrome.