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"Pakistan is home to over 7,200 glaciers, more than anywhere outside the poles. Rising temperatures, linked to climate change, are likely making many of them me
by andyjohnson0 4y ago
"Pakistan is home to over 7,200 glaciers, more than anywhere outside the poles. Rising temperatures, linked to climate change, are likely making many of them melt faster and earlier, adding water to rivers and streams that are already swollen by rainfall."
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/8/30/23327341/pakistan-flooding-monsoon-melting-glaciers-climate-change https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/8/30/23327341/pa...
- nomel 4y ago> Pakistan is home to over 7,200 glaciers, more than anywhere outside the poles It seems odd to give a measure of ice as the count of the pieces.
- booboofixer 4y agoSee 'List of longest glaciers on Earth in non-polar regions' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glaciers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glaciers
- nomel 4y ago57 is much less than 7,200.
- booboofixer 4y agoIm lost, what unit of measurement would satisfy your doubts about the presence of a lot of glaciers in Pakistan?
- throwaway09223 4y agoKind of, right? But it also makes sense. We might talk about a highly populated country having a lot of cities -- even though cities are just somewhat loosely defined pieces of the population total.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI've never heard of anyone talk of the total number of cities in China, or India, or Indonesia, etc. Where do people talk like that?
- aliswe 4y agoglaciers do have a certain minimum size, though.
- nomel 4y agoIt appears USGS roughly defines it as 0.1 square kilometers [1], or (being American) about 6 Walmarts. 1. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/there-size-criterion-glacier https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/there-size-criterion-glacier
- asciii 4y ago> 6 Walmarts? Supercenter, Discount Store, Neighborhood Market? So many sizes
- dumpsterlid 4y agoA glacier is defined by the valley/valleys it inhabits, it has a locality and flows like a river does. It seems odd to give it a name, but it is no more odd than naming a river.
- tuatoru 4y ago> climate change ... [glaciers] melt faster and earlier Yes, this has been strongly predicted by climate models since forever. Mark Lynas' 2006 book Six Degrees, which summarised climate change research up to about 2005, has a section on this. The prediction was that Pakistan will be wetter (i.e. have higher river flows) than historical averages through the 2020s because of glacial retreat. Sometime in the late 2030s or early 2040s, the glaciers will be effectively gone, and Pakistan will be without water, except during the monsoon (which may be more erratic - different models still say different things here). The rest of the year, the river beds will be dry. The time to start planning flood control and water retention structures was 20 years ago. Better late than never, though.