Have a watch of this.

Wow.

That was stunning - and depressing as hell.

Depressing and pisses me off. The next global warming denial asshole that starts up with me is gonna get a fucking ear full. The time has past for arguing about whether it's happening or not.

RS

I'm With Stupid wrote:Have a watch of this.

Quite stunning videography.

I've read that some 200 million people rely on Himalayan glaciers for their drinking water, mostly in China. Clearly, there's a disaster in the making.

The planet is warming, the cryosphere is retreating.

And we're doing nothing to stop it.

Stunning shots. Were they all taken in the same season? Will snow stop being deposited on the mountains? Will global warming result in a steady stream of water being released from the mountains, instead of seasonal floods?

I'm a global warming believer, are my questions reasonable?

james1v wrote: Stunning shots. Were they all taken in the same season?

There' a fair bit of variation, a few were even quite old B&W photos that helped to see the difference between then and now. I would expect that the majority of the pictures were taken in the summer season, but that's a guess on my part.

james1v wrote:
8Will snow stop being deposited on the mountains?

No, by no means. The warmer the atmosphere becomes the more moisture it holds, which means greater precipitation, not less. However, it isn't falling where it has traditionally fallen, e.g., Texas, Oklahoma, but the Monsoons will probably continue to bring moisture over the Himalaya and snowfall will probably not decline.

james1v wrote:
Will global warming result in a steady stream of water being released from the mountains, instead of seasonal floods?

In time, yes, but not now. It hasn't warmed enough to create these conditions, but eventually it will, assuming we keep emitting GHGs at the rate we do (28,000 gigatons a year now).

The last great Ice Age ended whn the planet warmed 7 degrees C, which it did over several thousand years. If we ever see plus 7C over the preindustrial norm (right now we're one C over), we could see all the ice in the Himalaya melt. But that day is at least 100 years in the future and probably even 200 years. Unless we happen curb emissions (don't hold your breath).

james1v wrote:
I'm a global warming believer, are my questions reasonable?

I'd say yes, they are reasonable.

You might think about reading up on the history of climate, including its paleo history.

Cheers!