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Posted on 08/27/2026 5:55:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The devastating flash flood that has ripped through the border communities of Nepal and Tibet has heightened fears that the climate crisis is destabilising the geology of mountain and polar regions, threatening millions of people.
Satellite imagery suggests a glacier collapse high in the Himalayas was the primary cause of the deadly torrent of mud, water and ice that tore along the Bhotekoshi River on Wednesday. It swept away buildings and roads and left at least 360 dead and 1,400 missing.
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake was initially blamed for the collapse. However, it is now thought to have been caused by the huge wall of ice that crashed down on to the north slope of Langtang Lirung, a 7,000-metre (23,000ft) mountain, the impact of which registered a magnitude of 5.2.
“Additional analysis of long-period seismic waves indicates that the seismic energy was instead generated by a glacial collapse and debris flow,” the US Geological Survey said.
The ice-rock avalanche pushed boulders and other debris into the Lhende Khola River, a tributary of the Bhotekoshi River. Water levels in rivers downstream rose by between 7 and 9 metres within 30 minutes, according to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, an intergovernmental scientific institution.
Scientists are still examining the precise mechanics of the Himalayan disaster, but many observe that glaciers and permafrost around the world are being weakened by global heating, caused by the burning of gas, oil and coal.
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I find the Guardian to be an unreliable source:
“being weakened by global heating, caused by the burning of gas, oil and coal”
Highly debatable statement.
Shameless. Did anyone check on the Gorge Dams China operates upstream? One may have suddenly gone missing.
The bodies aren’t all even recovered and these DBags are pitching their grift.
So many articles that are based on could, would, may , and other ways to turn an editorial into a news article.
About 90 Americans still missing after catastrophic Nepal flash floods kill hundreds, US officials say
I just watched a YouTube that the mountain had a geological failure under the glacier.
(Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain
areas like Nepal, experts warn)
🤦♀️🤦🤦♂️
Same type of “experts” that predicted
A New Ice Age in the 1970s?
A New Tax should fix everything 😕😅🙄🙄🙄
Scientists are still examining the precise mechanics of the Himalayan disaster, but many observe that glaciers and permafrost around the world are being weakened by global heating, caused by the burning of gas, oil and coal.
They never get the hint, do they?
Or not....
There is no “crisis” except in these people’s heads.
💩happens.
No icebergs were in the North Atlantic as the Hindenburg flew across?
There isn’t anything climate change can’t go....cause earthquakes....will probably be blamed if an asteroid hits the planet.
It didn’t take long for the eco fascists to insert climate change into this tragedy.
I’m so shocked that one of the most geologically unstable areas of the world has a geological instability.
Must be the climate.S/
When this disaster happened yesterday, I wondered how long it would take the “climate change” bull$hitters to spout their lies.
24 hours (or less).
CO2 causes tectonic plates to move and grind on each other and change shapes.
QED.
Morons. Earthquakes are now climate change.
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