Mt Everest to have major loss of glaciers this century

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he Washington Post tells readers that the iconic Mount Everest could see a major loss of its glaciers over the course of this century.

Temperature changes impacting
 Mt Everest faster than anticipated.

Its story is based on a new scientific study that its chief author calls the “the first detailed modelling study of all glaciers in the Dudh Koshi basin in the Everest region of Nepal.”

The paper, published Wednesday in the journal The Cryosphere, was authored by glacier researcher Joseph Shea of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal, and several colleagues from France and the Netherlands.

“The biggest result here is that the glaciers in the basin, we find them to be more sensitive to temperature than anyone expected before,” says Shea.

Read the story - “Climate change could shrink Mount Everest’s glaciers by 70 percent, study finds”.

Aussie ingenuity to resolve our troubles

Kenneth Davidson.

An opinion piece in today’s Melbourne Age (November 26) tells us about how we could scavenge from our oceans enough water for us all while, at the same time, providing considerable emissions free energy.

Senior columnist at The Age, Kenneth Davidson, speculated in an article headed: ”How Aussie ingenuity could solve the world's water woes” that the answer for clean energy and fresh water was “right under our noses” and had been for more than two millenniums.

He said Leaks in these aquifers are called ''seeps'' and water has been flowing from them since the last ice age. Some of these aquifers, he argued, are huge - bigger than the Great Artesian Basin.