Global Glacier Collapse. Will YOU have fresh water in 2050?

For most of us, glaciers are apparently unimportant sheets of ice high up on mountain ranges far away. But no les than 50% of the entire human species relies directly or indirectly on the water those glaciers provide during their summer melt. Our warming atmosphere means those glaciers are disappearing fast! So where are they all, and what are the implications for the coming decades?

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Research Links

Rounce et al

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo1324

Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-28/glaciers-are-melting-more-rapidly-risking-floods-and-droughts#xj4y7vzkg

United Nations

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/11/1130157

Our World in Data - cumulative emissions chart

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-region



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