Experts “Glacier Collapse Eventually Talent”
Difficulty development in vulnerable areas fuels disaster
On the 8th, members of the Indo-Tibet border police are working on a rescue near the Tapoban Dam in Uttarakhand Province, which collapsed by a glacier. Utarakant=AFP Yonhap News
The claim that the’Himalayan Glacier Flood’ that occurred in India on the 7th (local time) was a predicted manpower is gaining strength. Apart from the seriousness of accidents where hundreds of people are still unknown, the cause of rare natural disasters is another disaster caused by human selfishness such as difficult development and global warming.
According to Indian local media on the 8th, 18 victims have been killed the day before due to a flood in the Himalayan Mountains (7,817m above sea level) in the northern Uttarakhand state. About 200 people are missing. A spokesman for the Indo-Tibet border police said, “The rescuers are concentrating on the 2.5km tunnel, which is estimated to contain 30 workers (dam construction),” and the casualties are expected to increase further.
Indian authorities remain silent about the cause of the accident, which is of greatest concern. This is because there is not enough evidence to explain the cause-and-effect relationship of how the collapsed glaciers formed torrents and caused human damage. It is a promising hypothesis that a great amount of water was pushed down all at once as the water level increased and the ground weakened after a large puddle of unknown formation was formed in the ice area.
However, most experts seem to have no disagreement that the root cause of the glacial collapse is’climate change’, apart from scientific evidence. The logic is that the Himalayan glaciers, which collapsed due to warmer weather, hit the dam and the rapids swept through the village, causing a so-called’tsunami’.
There were several warnings. A report on the Hindu Kush Himalayan Assessment published by 350 researchers from around the world in 2019 indicated that if global warming proceeds at the current pace, two-thirds of the glaciers in the Himalayas will melt by 2100. It was a’preliminary warning’ of the situation two years later. Anzaal Prakash, a professor at the Business School of Hyderabad University in India, a member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Council on Climate Change (IPCC), told Tribune India daily, “It is surprisingly similar to the climate change incident.” Will get worse.”
Prof. Prakash believes that while the world temperature rises 1.5 degrees, the Himalayan region can rise to an average of 1.8 degrees and a maximum of 2.2 degrees. This means that the Himalayan alpine regions are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Professor Anil Kulkarni, an glaciologist at the Indian Academy of Sciences (IISc), also diagnosed the Hindustan Times as “a typical example of climate change on glaciers.”
On the 8th, rescuers prepare to search for a body in the lower Alacanda River in Rudraprayag in northern Uttarakhand, India. Rudraprayag=AP Newsis
Difficulty development was added to this, which further fueled the disaster. In June 2013, Utarakand province also suffered a record heavy rain, resulting in landslides and floods called the Himalayan Tsunami, killing 6,000 people. For this reason, opinions were steadily raised that no power plants or dams should be built, but the government of India ignored them. In fact, the rapids generated this time increased the damage scale by destroying two hydroelectric power plant construction sites near the dam.
Former India’s Water Resources Minister Uma Bati revealed, “When I was in office, the Himalayas were very sensitive, so I constantly demanded that no power plants be built.” Joshi, who is not a local environmental activist, also pointed out, “The dams that have been damaged are only a few miles away from the Nandadevi glacier. We don’t know why the government built the power plant so close to the glacier.”
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