One-third of Nepal’s mountain ice has melted, UN chief warns
From the foot of Mount Everest, António Guterres warned of floods, droughts and landslides if 1.5C global heating is breached.
I can't stop thinking about all the decomposing bodies on Everest and what kind of plagues they'll be brewing.
I always think about all that freshwater that is lost and needs to be again desalted from the seas with lots of efforts.
There's a prototype technology to strip water from sea air without moving parts or the crazy energy requirements. It'll be solved once profit from water is less an issue.
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From the foot of Mount Everest, António Guterres warned of floods, droughts and landslides if 1.5C global heating is breached.
Nepal's snow-capped mountains have lost close to one-third of their ice in over 30 years due to global warming, the UN Secretary-General warned today.
"I am here today to cry out from the rooftop of the world: stop the madness," the UN chief said via video message, calling for an end to the "fossil fuel age".
Glaciers in Nepal, wedged between two major carbon polluters - India and China, melted 65 per cent faster in the last decade than in the previous one, he said after visiting the Solukhumbu region.
Guterres warned that melting glaciers would mean swollen lakes and rivers sweeping away entire communities, and seas rising at record rates.
Glaciers in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75 per cent of their volume by century's end due to global warming, scientists said in a report published in June this year.
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