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June 23, 2017

Scientists Race to Sample Glaciers as They Melt from Global Warming
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And in Bolivia, scientists said this week they're in a race against time
to sample ice from melting glaciers before global warming erases
thousands of years' worth of records of Earth's climate. Glaciologists
with the Ice Memory Project took ice cores from the Illimani Mountain in
Bolivia's Andes, noting the glacier was almost a full degree warmer than
a previous sample. This is scientist Patrick Ginot.

Patrick Ginot: "We can prove that the temperature of the glacier has
risen 0.7 degrees centigrade in 18 years. This glacier, at 6,500 meters
above sea level, will heat up bit by bit, and with global warming, it
will lose all the information that we are going to take from these ice
samples. That is why we cannot wait 10 more years."

Worldwide, at least 200 million people depend on glaciers for drinking
water and are at risk of being left without water due to melting ice.


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