Peru has lost 56% of its tropical glaciers in the last six decades due to climate change, according to a new government inventory released on Wednesday.
After #IMBIE, now #GLAMBIE - the #glaciers mass balance intercomparison - their contribution to #SeaLevelRise is currently bigger than the #IceSheets but by the end of this century many of them will be gone.
“We can see that the ice shelves are weakening,” Millan said, “and that’s new key information that we didn’t know, because we thought that this part of Greenland was really stable.”
This is really interesting, and it's great that we can learn so much about the past from the well-preserved artefacts, but it's just a shame that we have to be destroying the Earth to do it...
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" Distinct from "#climate#TippingPoints" signifying when major changes to the climate system become unstoppable, #RiskTippingPoints "are not always physical, and #ClimateChange is just one of the many drivers of risk," the report explains.
A risk tipping point is the moment at which a given socioecological system is no longer able to buffer risks and provide its expected functions, after which the risk of catastrophic impacts to these systems increases substantially."
"Other #RiskTippingPoints covered by the report were the depletion of [#aquifers;] the point when #water supplies from melting mountain #glaciers start to decline; when Earth’s orbit becomes so full of debris that one collision with a satellite sets off a chain reaction; when #heatwaves pass the point when natural sweating can cool the human body; and when losses of interdependent wildlife species snowball into the collapse of an #ecosystem."
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
Peru has lost more than half its water reserves as glaciers rapidly melt (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Peru has lost 56% of its tropical glaciers in the last six decades due to climate change, according to a new government inventory released on Wednesday.