Impact on global warming on glaciers, the surrounding population, and the ski industry
Global warming is glaciers melting at an alarming rate, no doubt, change the world, affecting the local population and boost the ski industry.
The Opinions differ as to whether the glaciers are the result of global warming by greenhouse gases by man or just a natural cycle of Earth, but the fact is that glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, and the world is undoubtedly changing as a result.
Add glaciers healthy soil surface by precipitation and loses mass in the merger, keeping roughly the same size from year to year.
World Bank continues to release endless stream of reports global institutions and universities to review the merger of the planet's cryosphere, or ice zone. Report reference glaciers in the Andes and Bolivia showed that Chacaltaya glacier place has lost 80 percent of its area since 1982, and glaciers in Peru have lost more than a fifth of its mass in the past 35 years, reduction of 12 percent of the water flow in the coastal region of the country, where 60 percent of the Peruvian population.
And if the warming trend continues, the study concluded, many tropical glaciers of the Andes "will disappear within 20 years, not only threatens the water supply of 77 million people in the region, but also reduce the production of hydropower, which represents about half of electricity Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
The Chacaltaya glacier, considered 18,000 years ago and once the home of the highest ski resort in the world and is now reduced to one side of the rock powerful evidence of melting glaciers steep.
The oxidation remains of the Chacaltaya ski resort which was now dominated the ski slope highest in the world sitting on the Chacaltaya glacier approximately 17,390 feet (5,300 meters). Only some snow cover 538 square feet (50 square meters) is maintained Chacaltaya glacier in the magnificent stretches 17 222 square feet (1,600 square meters) in the 1950s.
This picture (above) shows the ski area Chacaltaya in 1973 and 2009 (below).
Emissions Emissions of greenhouse gases trap heat like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, warming of the surface. One of the first effects of melting glaciers is likely to be in South America where glaciers could cause a reduction in water supplies and putting populations and food at risk. The melting of glaciers in the Andes are so fast that some are expected to disappear in 15-25 years, an impact in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia.
Worldwide, glaciers are retreating glaciers and a host of others, such as The Himalayan Gangotri, Athabasca Glacier in the Canadian Rockies, and Davos in the Swiss Alps are melting fast.
The United Nations Group Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in 2007 that could disappear by 2035, causing hunger, water wars and hundreds of millions of climate change refugees.
The Innsbruck-based Austrian Alpine Association, said 85 of the 93 glaciers monitored between autumn 2008 and the autumn of 2009 had declined, while seven remained unchanged and raised.
Ski Industry
By protect our winters (the snow industry climate change group founded by pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones), 47 ski resorts in the Alps had not yet opened in 2007 due to climate change, with average temperatures dramatically.
The ski industry, recognizing that climate change is a threat Major, established Sustainable Slopes Project in 2002, thanks to the National Ski Areas. More recently, the Keep Winter Cool campaign was launched and many stations were installed renewable energy projects.
However, several scientific reports suggest that the steady increase of CO2 emissions are produced warmer winters, reduced snow cover and in many areas, less water, making it more difficult for resorts to snow, forcing the closure of many future ski area today.
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