Mt Everest Glaciers Mostly Gone by 2100
Devil may care climbers beware, you might have to start climbing Mt Everest like a regular rock if humans continue to even exist. According to a study published in The Cyrosphere, Mt Everest is going to change drastically due to climate change. If Dr. Joseph Shea and the co-authors of this study are to be believed, industry continually to operating like it has for years will shrink the glaciers around Mt Everest by 99 percent. Even if there is a moderate reduction of greenhouse gas emissions Mt Everest is estimated to lose around 70 percent of its natural beauty. This has shocked the team of researchers with Dr. Shea telling the New York Times, “We did not expect to see glaciers reduced at such a large scale…The numbers are quite frightening.” A forbidding sign indeed. The findings come from a computer model of glaciers the team built, that took into account the higher temperatures causing the ice t...