El Nino are natural phenomena and recur from time to time, but their effects have been amplified by global warming. The latest research suggests that tropical glaciers will disappear in the next 10 years. Most likely, this will happen during the next El Nino. Have you heard of such a natural phenomenon? Write about it in our Telegram chat.
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It is likely that other tropical glaciers located in Tanzania and Peru will face the same fate. Approximately 75 percent of Indonesia’s glaciers have disappeared in just nine years. I think what is happening in Indonesia is an indicator of what is going to happen around the world. — This is Mr. Thompson speaking.
Thompson and his team have been observing the glacier since 2010, when they drilled ice cores to determine the composition and temperature of the atmosphere around the glacier. Scientists noticed that even then the glacier was shrinking. This melting began at least 150 years ago, but accelerated only in the last decade.
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During the 2010 drilling expedition, the team installed a column of PVC pipes connected by a rope in the ice. This was necessary in order to measure the rate of ice melting. It was found that the speed is about one meter per year.
The rate of glacier melting is increasing exponentially,” says Professor Thompson. It’s like the spread of an incurable disease in a person’s body, when he withers before his eyes and nothing can be done about it. Water absorbs more heat energy from the Sun than snow, so increasing the amount of water at the top of the glacier heats the glacier even more. If you want to “kill the glacier”, then just put water on it. The water goes straight through the ice to the bedrock. Because of this, when water begins to accumulate at the top of the glacier, the glacier begins to melt much faster.
