The researchers hope their findings will feed into future IPCC reports, strengthening the panel's conclusions on how climate change is
affecting glaciers around the world.
Similar detailed studies are vital to develop accurate models that predict how climate change will
affect glaciers around the world, Prof. Briner says.
Not exact matches
Nick Gotts >... disappearance of high - altitude
glaciers and snows on which
around 1/6 of the
world's population depend for water supply; drought -
affected areas increasing; flood events increasing; disruption of fisheries; increase in malarial areas.
Glaciers around the
world are melting away,
affecting Summer water flows.
The findings suggest that future reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should have stronger conclusions
around how human - caused climate change is
affecting the
world's
glaciers, the researchers say.
The research isn't only relevant to the past - it's likely that climate change will
affect the stability of cold hanging
glaciers around the
world.
The melting of
glaciers will
affect people
around the
world, their drinking water supplies, water needed to grow food and supply energy, as well as global sea levels.