We read from time to time that ice-pack melting in Antartica and Greenland will lift sea levels into the sewers and streets of major cities of the world, including New York, Miami, Los Angeles. What is less often said is that the same melting, taking place in high mountain glaciers, will enormously impact the rivers flowing from those glaciers and the people dependent on their waters.
“In three to four decades these rivers that feed more than a billion people in our society and adjoining countries will become seasonal rivers,” Ahluwalia said.
Almost every one of more than 300 large glaciers studied worldwide — from the Andes in South America to the Himalayas — is in retreat, international glaciologists reported in October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
I hope those religious folks who disparage science and depend on faith are praying like maniacs, cause one billion people need all the help they can get…