Not only do melting Himalayan glaciers create floods that claim hundreds of lives, glaciers are a major source of fresh water in the region, which is now diminishing with alarming pace.
This video is about the Glacial Melt in the Himalayas under the influence of Climate Change.This is an alarming situation that the biggest Freshwater source is depleting so fast.
WATCH: Melting Water Towers of Asia, the Himalayan Glaciers. Biggest Water Source is in Danger of Depleting. geofindings channel Oct 7 report The Himalayas are in
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danger.
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The Himalayas are 55 million year olds
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act as water travel of Asia feeding 10
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major rivers. The Indis river system,
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the Gangas river system, the Brahotra
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river system.
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melting glaciers creating floods,
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disasters and claiming thousands of
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lives in India and Pakistan after every
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few years.
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Recent floods in Pakistan claimed
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hundred of lives
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and billion of rupees loss in the form
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of property, livestock and agriculture.
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Himalayan glaciers are major source of
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fresh water in the region which is
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depleting with the alarming pace. Transcripts here for readers writers and researchers
Here I
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am going to present a comparison of the
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glacier cover from 1984
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to 2020. I will present you an area of
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the state of Jammu and Kashmir and we'll
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show you how village cover decreased
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with time. This is the first image. This
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is the image of 1984.
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You are observing glitch cover on the
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mountain peaks. This is the image of
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December 1984. And you are watching that
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all the mountain peaks are covered with
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snow or glaciers and no glacial lake uh
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could be observed at that time in this
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region. So it means that glacial cover
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is intact and there there is no danger
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of the glacial lake outburst flooding.
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Now uh we move toward 2002 and this is
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the image of 2002. Uh you could observe
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that with the passage of time in 18
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years significant amount of fatier cover
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is decreased or you can say that it is
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melted and some glacial lakes are
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evident. Now in the region you could
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observe on the top of the image and then
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in the middle of the image and all over
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the region glacial lakes are emerging
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and you uh you could observe these lakes
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in this image. Now uh if we move further
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to 2014 image uh you could observe now
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this is the image of 2014 and in this
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image the glacial cover is decreased
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significantly and glacier lakes are more
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prominent.
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Uh one can see that there are many
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glacial lakes are now prominent in the
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region uh in this region in the lower
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part and in upper part as well. This is
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alarming that at what pace these
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indicates are being meed. Now get ready
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to watch uh the image of 2022. Next I
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will move towards uh 2020. This is the
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image of 2020.
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uh you can see that almost 80% of
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glacier cover is diminished and uh one
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could observe that there are a lot of
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glacier lakes are now prominent in the
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region in whole region from top uh to
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middle and to the lower end of uh this
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image there are a lot of glacial lakes
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and these lakes are creating the danger
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of glacial lake outburst flooding. So if
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we uh discuss that what will be the con
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consequences of this glacial melt. So uh
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the first and prominent hazard
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associated with this is the glacial lake
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outburst flooding. When glacial melts it
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creates water and that water moves uh
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downhill under the effect of pedavity.
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And the next major hazard associated
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with fast glacial melting is flood. When
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excessive amount of water produced then
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the river overflows and flooding occurs
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in low-lying areas.
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At end of the day or what we could do?
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We could reduce the greenhouse gas
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emissions. We could protect mountain
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ecosystem. We could raise awareness
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among the masses and support the climate
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action around the world to avoid such
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hazards in future and to save our future
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generations.
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