Glacier NP to be glacier free 2020
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Things certainly are hotting up.
Arctic ice, glaciers; what next. I’m picking a really, really bad Australian snow season soon.
But Daniel Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey ecologist who works at Glacier, says the park’s namesakes will be gone about ten years ahead of schedule, endangering the region’s plants and animals.
The 2030 date, he said, was based on a 2003 USGS study, along with 1992 temperature predictions by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“Temperature rise in our area was twice as great as what we put into the [1992] model,” Fagre said. “What we’ve been saying now is 2020.”
China is now so concerned about glacial reduction, it is planning to build 59 reservoirs to store water.
The far western province of Xinjiang, home to many of the planet’s highest peaks and widest ice fields, will carry out the 10-year engineering project, which aims to catch and store glacier run-off that might otherwise trickle away into the desert.
Add all this to this report (Andes/Alps glaciers declining), and this report (Himalyan glaciers being decapitated) and it looks like all our ice is melting.
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