The Earth's 'third pole' is melting and the consequences are serious

[Warrigal]

I never heard of the Earth's third pole before today and it is not a magnetic pole but a huge reservoir of ice at the top of the world.

This is a very long article if you are interested.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/climate-change-the-third-pole-under-threat/7657672

A taste

Deep in the Himalayas sits a remote research station that is tracking an alarming trend in climate change, with implications that could disrupt the lives of more than 1 billion people and pitch the most populated region of the world into chaos.

The station lies in the heart of a region called the Third Pole, an area that contains the largest area of frozen water outside of the North Pole and South Pole.

Despite its relative anonymity, the Third Pole is vitally important; it is the source of Asia's 10 largest rivers including the Yellow, the Yangzi, the Mekong, the Irrawaddy and the Ganges — and their fertile deltas.

Flows from the glaciers that give the pole its name support roughly 1.3 billion people in China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan — and the glaciers are melting fast.

 

[ossian]

It makes sense. Climate change must be having a siginficant effect on areas such as the Himilayas. All that melt water has to end up somewhere and raise the tides.

 

[Don M.]

A similar situation exists in the U.S. The snow pack in the Rocky Mountains has been declining, and reducing the annual flow the Colorado River to a fraction of normal. As a result, two of our largest reservoirs...Lake Powell, and Lake Mead, are at record lows. This water normally feeds much of the desert SW....Las Vegas, etc., and if this trend continues for much longer, that entire part of the nation is going to become increasingly stressed.

Anyone who denies Climate Change is not paying attention...IMO.