Posted on 05/02/2019 6:27:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Some of the world’s most iconic and beautiful locations will be transformed by global warming, with glaciers vanishing from sites such as Everest’s Khumbu Icefall in decades.
Glaciers will vanish from half of U.N.-designated World Heritage sites this century unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, research published in Earth’s Future suggests.
Sites in the Swiss Alps such as the Grosser Aletschgletscher will see ice vanish, the researchers warned.
So will Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae said researchers from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which collaborated with the University of Fribourg on the study.
Peter Shadie, the director of the IUCN World Heritage Programme, said, ‘Losing these iconic glaciers would be a tragedy and have major consequences for the availability of water resources, sea level rise and weather patterns.’
Nearly half the World Heritage sites – 21 out of a total of 46 that have glaciers – will lose all their ice by 2100 under a high emissions scenario, they found.
Even under a low-emissions model, eight of the sites will be ice free by the start of the next century, the report said.
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Bullobama
Climate Change is an IQ test. Smart people know it's a hoax and a scam.
This sort of thing ACTUALLY happened in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
i.e. meh...
Democrats should stop driving cars and riding in airplanes.
They’re repeating the lie - and sooner or later.........
The glaciers will STILL be there.
It’s been going on longer than the advent of the automobile. There is a famous glacier in Alberta called the Athabasca that is a big tourist stop. They have pictures of it from the late 1880’s and it has shrunk considerably since then.
Preach it and the faithful will bow and scrape. It takes a lot of faith to be a Global Warming true believer.
The best way to stop global warming is to cut off funds for global warming research.
Here in Minnesota only 7500 years ago the glaciers were two miles thick. They melted.
I bet in 7500 years they might be back.
I’m an uneducated white deplorable but I kind of think the climate is always changing. Just a hunch on my part.
>>glaciers vanishing from sites such as Everest’s Khumbu Icefall in decades.
But, AOC says we’ll all be dead in 11 years anyway, so why would this matter?
All democrats should do their part to stop emissions- stop exhaling. Stop eating
Maybe people can farm in Greenland like the Vikings did
Didn’t that small-town deviant mayor candidate just say it 10 years now? The death of planet Earth is accelerating! The sky is falling down!!!
The glaciers in Greenland were supposed to be gone by 2015
And that analysis did not even anticipate the China explosion in fossils fuel use
Again? I thought they all melted and disappeared a decade ago.
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