Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-40-world-glaciers-already-130442699.html

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  1. **From CNN:**

    The world’s [glaciers](https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/europe/wiss-alps-glacier-collapse-switzerland-latam-intl?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo) are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed, even if global temperatures stopped rising immediately, a new study has found.

    Researchers estimate glaciers will eventually lose 39% of their mass relative to 2020, a trend that is already irreversible no matter what comes next and will likely contribute a 113-millimeter increase to global sea level rise.

    The loss rises to 76% if the world continues to pursue its current climate policies, which will likely fail to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a paper published in the journal Science.

    The latter scenario could prove disastrous for countries that depend on glacial meltwater for irrigation, power and drinking water; a world in which 39% of the glacier mass is lost compared to 76% is the “difference between being able to adapt to the loss of the glacier and not,” James Kirkham, a glaciologist at the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative told CNN.

    Even though the study offers a bleak prognosis for the world’s glaciers, its authors are trying “to give a message of hope,” said Lilian Schuster, a researcher at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, who co-led the study.

    “With the study, we want to show that with every tenth of a degree less of global warming, we can preserve glacier ice,” she told CNN.

  3. With Trump 1st term and now with his second, yeah, they are doomed. Doesn’t help that right wing politics and governments are really destroying us while Left wing does leas damage but not reversing it.

  4. First off, 85% of the earths glacial ice is in Antarctica, so if this is accurate it’s super bad.

    Second, we’ve already blown past 1.5C, currently at 1.7 and they say 2.0 by 2030 is entirely possible.

    11 centimeters seems like a severe underestimate considering they are still talking like 1.5 is still possible when it’s not

  5. One day, not too far into the future, the congress critters will be sloshing around in ankle deep water in congress. Rather than call attention to to it, they will lie to themselves and declare that “since the Washington DC has “always” been underwater, we are now sister citys with Venice Italy”

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