World’s Glaciers Disappear At Alarming Pace

It is common knowledge that the world’s glaciers have been melting. What is not common knowledge is that the pace has accelerated, according to the United Nations. The summary of there findings is that “Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, potentially jeopardising hundreds of millions of people living downstream.”

The developments will have several effects. The first is on farmers. One example is 120 million farmers at risk due to ice and snow loss in the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountains, which start in the western Himalayas and run from Afghanistan to Pakistan.

Vast Flooding

Another effect is dangerous. This is due to a growth in flooding. “Melting snowcaps are causing sea levels to rise about one millimetre higher every year, a figure that might seem insignificant, yet every millimetre will flood another 200,000 to 300,000 persons every year.” This will lead to climate migration, which is impossible to support at these population levels. There is, quite frankly, nowhere for many of these people to go. 

The US reports that many of the world’s glaciers cannot be saved. Based on the rate of rising temperatures, global warming is too far along and too extreme. 

UN Estimates

The areas currently melting are vast. The UN puts them at “WGMS estimates that glaciers, which do not include the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets, have lost more than 9,000 billion tonnes of mass since 1975.” This ice block is about the size of Germany.

The melting glacier problem can be slowed but can no longer be blocked.

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