Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadowed a future of climate disaster | Michael Mann

Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadowed a future of climate disaster | Michael Mann

The deluge capped a summer of extreme climate events, from deadly heatwaves to wildfires. We must take action now For millennia, the high peaks of the Himalayas were held together by an invisible, frozen cement – permafrost and glacial ice that bound ancient rock into seemingly unshakable fortresses. But as the planet continues to warm, this alpine glue is liquefying. The glacial collapse and deluge in Nepal and Tibet was not a freak weather event; it was the structural failure of a mountain ...

By Michael Mann