Global Warming and the end of glaciers

[nomad]

"China's leading glaciologist warned that an 'ecological catastrophe' is looming in Tibet because of global warming, which will cause most of the glaciers in the region to melt by 2100 if the trend is not halted. Yao Tangdong made the stark prediction as the result of several surveys performed by scientists from China and the United States over 40 months. The team told the China Daily it had discovered numerous ice islands at high elevations on the Tibetan Plateau that used to be connected by glaciers."

(from The Oregonian, weds, oct. 13)

 

I'm sure everyone already knows that almost all glaciers in the Cascades are shrinking rapidly as well.

[Jeebus]

good. won't have to learn crevasse rescue