Experts warn climate crisis may destabilise mountain glaciers

Climate scientists predicted that global warming would melt upland ice holding rocks and glaciers in place and we would get deadly collapses. Instead of listening the fossil fuel companies promoted drill baby drill politics. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A massive glacier collapse triggered the deadly #Nepal #Tibet disaster. Some background: The glaciers in this #Langtang region have lost ~41% of their area since ~1815 - and the rate of loss has increased 4X since the 1970s - as these high elevations warm roughly 2X as fast as the global average 1/

Fossil fuel companies have known about man-made climate change for fifty years. Politicians have known about it for fifty years. Every climate disaster is a massacre.

It is premature to attribute the Nepal disaster to climate change: we cannot yet say how much warming temperatures and melting glaciers contributed to this specific event. But risks of glacier collapse in a warming Himalaya are clearly growing. My latest at The Climate Brink:

“As humans warm the planet by burning fossil fuels, the Himalayas are losing their permafrost, a mixture of soil, rocks and organic matter that has remained frozen for thousands of years” This is a climate change disaster. #Sheshed www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/c...

Climate experts have been predicting disasters like Nepal for decades [email protected] www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

There are Kiwis online saying 'it was an earthquake' that triggered the collapse, not climate change. WRONG If that were the case NZ would have ZERO fucking glaciers left. Up to 1sq KM of ice fell hundreds of meters to the valley floor triggering the horrific unimaginably terrifying floods

Climate crisis likely destabilising mountain areas like #Nepal, experts warn - “More avalanches and more floods are inevitable - early warning systems are urgently needed to protect the people living in these valleys” #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Climate Crisis Impact Today "The devastating flash flood that has ripped through the border communities of Nepal and Tibet has heightened fears that the climate crisis is destabilizing the geology of mountain and polar regions, threatening millions of people." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

“Scientists say glaciers in this region, and around the world, are increasingly unstable because of human-caused global warming. Across the mountains of Nepal and Tibet, climate change is causing glaciers to melt at an alarming rate.” #climate

"the glaciers lie on permafrost: ground that is permanently frozen to some depth. As this permafrost warms and thaws, the rock, ice and mud become unstable, resulting in rockfalls and destabilisation of ice in steep terrain." theconversation.com/nepal-tibet-...

Destabilization of Himalayan glaciers due to rising temperatures is caused by human activity. Some countries emit more CO2 than their fair share. Nepal emits far below its fair share. People in #Nepal bear the brunt of climate emissions generated elsewhere on the planet. This is not fair. #climate

The footage out of Nepal is beyond apocalyptic, and all of us who live in mountainous regions with glaciers could see it happen. Here in the cusco area we’ve already seen glacier chunk floods in the past few decades, and… (more)

NEPAL: MASSIVE HUMAN TRAGEDY Geologists/climate scientists note the disaster is a rare extreme event driven by a combination of 2 major factors. 1 Tectonic Uplift: The Himalayas are slowly rising due to long-term tectonic plate movement. As the mountains push upward, glaciers get steeper/unstable>

My stomach is churning after I saw the footage of the melting glaciers in Nepal. And then the glacier off Greenland's coast...