Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Water (Glacial)

January 16, 2019

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Hundreds of millions of people rely on water that flows from mountain glaciers. Global warming is making those glaciers vanish.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:13 PM EST

The world’s roughly 150,000 glaciers, not including the large ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, cover about 200,000 square miles of the earth’s surface. Over the last four decades they’ve lost the equivalent of a layer of ice 70 feet thick.
I am again reminded how fortunate I am not to be stuck on this material plane for more than 15 or 20 more yrs. Max.

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