Crap!

Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away

"The National Park Service officially removed the Stevens Glacier from its inventory because it had grown too small and there was a lack of evidence that ice was flowing, such as crevassing.

...both the Pyramid and Van Trump glaciers were too fragmented and small to be considered glaciers.

There’s just a few ice patches the size of a Little League field."

#Seattle #ClimateChange #GlacialMelt #TheMountain
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/three-mount-rainiers-glaciers-melted-away-rcna89123

#GlacialMelt is Dispossessing #Nepal’s #Indigenous Communities

Shrinking glaciers are forcing residents to flee, leaving a scattering of ghost towns across the country’s unforgiving north.

By Tulsi Rauniyar
April 04, 2023

"The indigenous communities of the upper Himalayas are known for their age-old lifestyle, which has adapted to one of the most hostile landscapes in the world. The people of Upper Mustang are some of the last guardians of the Tibetan spiritual identity, whose century-old cultural identity and practices have been weakened by mass out-migration.

The reason? #ClimateChange !

Lhamu Tsering, a former inhabitant of the region describes the situation:"More than a decade ago, when it snowed, it would come up to here. But now, it’s barely a few inches. The mountains barely have any snow on them. In the months of March and April, the melting of snow and the occurrence of rainfall would provide sufficient irrigation to the fields, enabling the sowing of various crops such as barley, wheat, peas, and potatoes. But with lower levels of snowfall, the sowing season has gone awry.'"
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #IndigenousNews

https://thediplomat.com/2023/04/glacial-melt-is-dispossessing-nepals-indigenous-communities/

Earlier, higher, smaller: #ClimateChange alters glacial lake outburst floods (#GLOF)

Accelerated #GlacialMelt in recent decades has resulted in the most extreme glacial lake outbursts becoming smaller in terms of volume and peak discharge. However, in the high mountains of #Asia floods now occur about eleven weeks earlier in the year than in 1900, in the European #Alps ten weeks earlier and in northwestern North #America seven weeks earlier.

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/earlier-higher-smaller-climate-change-alters-glacial-lake-outburst-floods

#ClimateCrisis #Glacier