Disappearing glaciers in B.C. put tourism, watersheds at risk: scientist
An estimated 80 per cent of B.C.’s glaciers are forecast to completely disappear and the impacts will trickle well beyond less beautiful vistas for British Columbians to look at. But any action to fight climate change can nonetheless help save glaciers in B.C.’s northern coastal mountains, one expert says.
Watersheds with even minimal supplies of water from glaciers do better than systems without them, he said. “Last year, we had exceptionally warm, dry conditions and those watersheds that had glaciers in them, they supplemented flows and they were okay,” he said. The Science study is among the latest piece of research warning of the effects of climate change amid concerns humans won’t meet the goal of limiting the rise in average global temperature to 1.5 C. The global average temperature is already 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial levels and the window for the 1.5-degree scenario, while still feasible, is closing.
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