Half of glaciers will be gone by 2100 even under Paris 1.5C accord, study finds

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If global heating continues at current rate of 2.7C, losses will be greater with 68% of glaciers disappearing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/05/half-planets-glaciers-gone-2100-even-under-paris-15c-accord-data-finds

A large melt hole on the top of an iceberg in the Disko bay, Ilulissat, western Greenland, June 2022.
A large melt hole on top of an iceberg in Disko bay, Ilulissat, western Greenland, in June 2022. The iceberg originates from Jakobshavn glacier, the most productive in the northern hemisphere.Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty

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Phoebe Weston

@phoeb0Thu 5 Jan 2023 14.00 EST

Half the planet’s glaciers will have melted by 2100 even if humanity sticks to goals set out in theParis climate agreement, according to research that finds the scale and impacts of glacial loss are greater than previously thought. At least half of that loss will happen in the next 30 years.

Researchers found 49% of glaciers would disappear under the most optimistic scenario of 1.5C of warming. However, if global heating continued under the current scenario of…

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