Category : Climate Change | Location : Delhi | Posted on 2021-08-10 00:48:20
Among the most alarming findings as laid out in the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on Monday is the effect of climate change on glaciers and the snow cover in the mountains. The Sixth Assessment Report states scientists have ascertained that global warming will have a serious impact on mountain ranges across the world, including the Himalayas.
The consequences are stark and dreary — the freezing level height of mountains are likely to change and snowlines will retreat over the coming decades.
The report has further said that glaciers are melting and receding across the globe, including in the Himalayas, and that this is now a phenomenon that is “locked in’” and cannot be reversed. It adds that the level of temperature rise in the mountains and glacial melt is unprecedented in 2,000 years. The retreat of glaciers is now attributed to anthropogenic factors and human influence, it states.
Retreating snowlines and melting glaciers is a cause for alarm as this can cause a change in the water cycle, the precipitation patterns, increased floods as well as an increased scarcity of water in the future in the states across the Himalayas.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ipcc-report-himalayas-snow-cover-melting-glaciers-climate-change-7445712/
