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Human-induced climate change is causing Mount Everest's glaciers to melt rapidly
• Researchers conducted a study to measure if the highest glaciers on the planet are impacted by human-sourced climate change.
• Their results said yes, estimating climate change triggered melting changes to Mount Everest’s South Col Glacier started in the 1950s.
• Researchers estimated that ice thinning rates were approaching about 2 meters of water per year as the glacier turned from snowpack to ice.
It took nearly 2,000 years for ice to form at the highest glacier on the Earth’s highest mountain, but climate change has caused nature’s ancient creation to lose decades worth of ice every year.
A new study published in the Nature Portfolio Journal Climate and Atmospheric Science found that human-sourced climate change has reached the high-mountain glacier systems of Mount Everest and several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that glacier ice has been exposed.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/592909-human-induced-climate-change-is-causing-mount