rabbitoh08 wrote on May 30
th, 2015 at 8:57pm:
The average mass balance of the glaciers with available long-term observation series around the world continues to be negative, with tentative figures indicating a further thickness reduction of 0.89 metres water equivalent (m w.e.) during the hydrological year 2013
http://www.wgms.ch/mbb/sum13.html
'Thus a study has been carried out to find the change in the extent of Himalayan glaciers during the last decade using IRS LISS III images of 2000/01/02 and 2010/11.
Two thousand and eighteen glaciers representing climatically diverse terrains in the Himalaya were mapped and monitored. It includes glaciers of Karakoram, Himachal, Zanskar, Uttarakhand, Nepal and Sikkim regions. Among these, 1752 glaciers (86.8%) we re observed having stable fronts (no change in the snout position and area of ablation zone), 248 (12.3%) exhibited retreat and 18 (0.9%) of them exhibited advancement of snout. The net loss in 10,250.68 sq. km area of the 2018 glaciers put together was found to be 20.94 sq. km or 0.2% (+/- 2.5 % of 20.94 sq. km).
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/106/07/1008.pdf
From the World Glacier Monitoring -
'Mass balance values for the observation period 2012/13 have been reported from more than 125 glaciers worldwide.'
Compared to over 2,000 glaciers in the Himalayas alone. I can see where those figures really stack up. Do I need a \sarc tag?