Bhutan's glaciers at risk

Summit Voice: After significant warming during half century, about 10 percent of Bhutan`s glaciers are likely to disappear within the next few decades -- even if regional and global temperatures were to stabilize at current levels. "These particular glaciers have seen so much warming in the past few decades that they`re currently playing lots of catch up," Brigham Young University geology professor Summer Rupper said after studying climate and glaciers in the Himalaya. Rupper`s most conservative findings...

URL: http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/11/17/global-warming-bhutans-glaciers-at-risk/
Enclosure: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2012GL053010.shtml