Mountain glaciers on all continents are shrinking, exacerbating water shortages, sea-level rise, and disasters such as rockslides and flooding. This new article in Environment shows that more examples than not illustrate how poorly humans have adapted to this fairly straightforward consequence of climate change.
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"This is a fascinating and stimulating volume that will commend itself to all with interests in the causes and consequences of Anthropocene environmental change..."-Colin Ballantyne University of St Andrews, Scotland
Journal of Quaternary Science, Vol. 23(6-7) 703–706 (2008)
"...Whatever your interest in glaciers, you will find this rich, broadly ranging volume exciting." –Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse
"Darkening Peaks is a dazzling fusion of hard science, historical narrative, and cultural context..." -Stephen H. Schneider, co-editor of Climate Change Policy
"...Darkening Peaks should help bring humanity to its senses and to spur the actions needed." –James E. Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Journal of Quaternary Science, Vol. 23(6-7) 703–706 (2008)
"...Whatever your interest in glaciers, you will find this rich, broadly ranging volume exciting." –Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse
"Darkening Peaks is a dazzling fusion of hard science, historical narrative, and cultural context..." -Stephen H. Schneider, co-editor of Climate Change Policy
"...Darkening Peaks should help bring humanity to its senses and to spur the actions needed." –James E. Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Looking up at mountains, people now see bare, dark rock where white snow and ice once stood–dramatic evidence of the accelerating pace of glacier retreat due to climate change. This groundbreaking work is the first to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary, global exploration of the scientific, social, and economic dimensions of this phenomenon. Bringing together contributors from five continents, Darkening Peaks discusses the ways that scientists have observed and modeled glaciers, tells how climate change is altering their size and distribution, and looks closely at their effect on human life.
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Climate change has already begun to transform our world, bringing impacts on human populations. The rapid retreat of mountain glaciers is an important example of such impacts. There are other examples as well. We list several here, and provide links to the organizations that seek to address these impacts.
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2 Comments:
It is really good article.
as you know, the information will give warning for people who always ignore the bad effect of climate change. In fact, this issue is really important.
"new article on glaciers in Environment"<---Nice post
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