Posted on 02/08/2021 5:15:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
Indian rescue crews struggled to reach trapped victims Feb. 7 after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off and released a torrent of water and debris that slammed into two hydroelectric plants. At least nine people were killed and 140 were missing in a disaster experts said appeared to point to global warming.
Video from India’s northern state of Uttarakhand showed the muddy, concrete-gray floodwaters tumbling through a valley and surging into a dam, breaking it into pieces with little resistance before roaring on downstream. The flood turned the countryside into what looked like an ash-colored moonscape.
More than 2,000 members of the military, paramilitary groups and police took part in the search-and-rescue operation, including soldiers expert in mountaineering, working into the night under bright halogen lights, authorities said.
(Excerpt) Read more at indiawest.com ...
“This was a classic progressive failure in a mountain flank.”
This had nothing to do with glaciers calving.
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2021/02/08/chamoli-2/
Excellent photos and videos clearly showing that this was geology, not climatology, at work here.
The author makes the point that it’s been 24 hours since this was deduced, but bad reporting continues.
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