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EUROPE: Western Canada’s glaciers are shrinking rapidly and could be gone entirely by the end of the 21st century, climate change experts are warning.
A study published this week in the journal Nature Geosciences predicted that the glaciers in Western Canada could be 70 percent gone in the next 90 years, a bleak warning of the global warming that could be on the way.
“What [glaciers] are telling us is that the climate is changing. The glaciers don’t respond to weather, so they don’t get confused about whether it was a cold winter or a hot summer,” Gary Clarke, lead author of the study and professor emeritus at University of British Columbia (UBC) told ThinkProgress. “When the glaciers are wasting away, we know that the climate isn’t helpful to them.”
The disappearing glaciers in Western Canada will have wide-ranging impact, the study noted. Authors wrote that the shrinking glaciers would affect everything from energy to tourism.
