Global Warming = Melting Glaciers = 'Himalayan Tsunamis'

Unprecedented glacier melting caused by warming global temperatures has spawned an increase in massive water surges known as “Himalayan tsunamis” that are causing vast destruction in Himalayan communities in India and threatening countless others across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, India, Nepal and Bhutan, according to a recent report by India Today.

The phenomenon known as Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFS) “are capable of releasing billions of cubic meters of glacial water, stored for decades, in a few short hours, or even in a matter of minutes and virtually without warning to those living downstream,” India Today reports.

As the average global temperature continues to rise, a combination of “rapidly melting Himalayan glaciers,” extreme rainfall, and unpredictable seismic events are causing the GLOFS in which massive waves of water suddenly charge down mountains and wipe out entire villages and communities.

“The Kedarnath floods may be only a small precursor to never-seen-before mega floods,” said Maharaj K. Pandit, director, Center for Inter-disciplinary Studies of Mountain & Hill Environment at Delhi University, in reference to a recent and deadly GLOFS that “entombed most of Kedarnath town in just 24 hours on the evening of June 16 and on June 17,” India Today reports.

“Survivors say they witnessed tonnes of waterborne debris flattening almost anything that stood in the way. Screaming pilgrims, their voices drowned out, did not stand a chance in the face of the ferocious flood that unbelievably tossed around boulders, several meters across, like paper balls,” India Today writes.