ISLAMABAD: Glaciers have lost a significant amount of ice in the past over seven decades across the Globe while losing 32.5 MWE Thickness.
A report compiled by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has revealed that lose of ice means melting of glaciers worldwide is alarming signal for world population.
The WMO report states the glaciers monitored by World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) are losing sheen at a rapid pace.
The figures reveal that the value has reduced to +5.392 in 1950 to -27.123 in 2024. “The shift from +5.392 to -27.123 Meters Water Equivalent (MWE) indicates that the glaciers worldwide have lost about 32.5 MWE thickness on average during the last 74 years,” the report states.
As per the WGMS, the period 2022 to 2024 represents the most negative three-year glaciers mass balance on record. “Since 2022, the value of glaciers has shifted from -24.794 to -27.123 in 2024,” the report reveals.
This net loss of glacier mass is a clear sign that glaciers are melting significantly globally.
The loss of glaciers, according to the experts, is the outcome of climate change, particularly global warming, which increases melting and reduces snowfall accumulation.
The major impact due to the melting of glaciers will be water scarcity in the near future.
Pertinently, the melting of glaciers has gained pace in Jammu & Kashmir with the experts asserting that the region has lost nearly “30 per cent of glaciers in the past 60 years and warned that 70 per cent of them will recede by the end of this century if the prevailing pace continues.
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