Jay Leno jut said it, "what an idiot!" I guess I'd better turn off that background noise and say what needs to be said. Someone has been blinded by the politics of fear and greed. Several well known Big Oil Companies have been known to start wars to get what they want. Dirty Coal knocks down mountains, and destroys whole towns along with the lives of the people who live in them, all for coal, which is killing US, and for money, something that isn't even real. Money is an illusion just like time is an illusion. Maybe you don't care to remain a healthylivinggal into the future? The more we dump our trash and waste and the more we pump carbon into the atmosphere the shorter our lives become.. humm, just like smoking cigarettes. The Earth keeps its own time, and will only put up with our shenanigans for so long, and then it is so long humans.

Glaciers have been known to collapse catastrophically. The massive ancient glacial lake that covered parts of Montana and most of Idaho created the Columbia Valley in less than a blink of the eye, by the universe's time piece, when the 1,000 foot high ice dam that held it back burst, and it has happened more than once. So I wouldn't call glaciers melting in 25 years a lot of hot air. If enough water builds up under the Antarctic Ice Sheet, it could easily slide into the Antarctic Ocean catastrophically, especially since the Antarctic Ice Shelf, which holds the Ice Sheet in place, is quickly disappearing.

And what about all of that displaced water? Yes, oceans will rise, much more than we will be able to deal with. The pressures on the Earth's crust will shift dramatically, are shifting dramatically as the masses of water in glaciers on land move to the sea. This will cause more and bigger earthquakes (Haiti?), continental plates will shift as the one between New Zealand and Australia did by a foot just a few months ago, and Volcanoes long dormant will re-awaken. Yellowstone Caldera's alarm clock has been in snooze mode for about 60,000 years.

It always makes me very nervous when someone lies to themselves and says "It won't happen here." It can and will happen, after all its just a matter of time. The question is, by who's time piece?

The only nonsense is that you rely on a piece of paper to show you what is really happening. Don't tell me there aren't people here from political groups with political agendas.This is the prime one. The glaciers of the Himalayas are indeed melting NOW. Whether that is completed in 25-30 years or even sooner is not the issue. The issue is that it is already affecting crops and the availability of freshwater. Too bad so many only think with their politics instead of actually looking to see what is really happening. The people who live there will tell you what they are experiencing. Cherrypicking reports doesn't prove a damn thing.

2 questions: In how many years later than that will they melt anyway ? What
essential difference does it make when too many people couldn't care about the impact that loosing all that fresh drinking water will make on others anyway ?