"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that 80 percent of all Himalayan glacier ice will be gone by 2035.
....glaciers are the world's natural water towers.'They kind of store water in the wet season and they disperse it during the dry season. And they do that for free,'
Half of the global population, Smith reports, depends on the rivers that originate in the Himalayas.
'The problem with the way a lot of people look at global warming is they think the climate will change to a new state and that we will adapt to it.' But the big fear, Romm says, is that 'the climate just keeps changing and changing and changing, and adaptation is going be exceedingly difficult.'”
