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Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers [Audiobook]
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Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B09JH8QHRJ | 2021 | 13 hours and 38 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Jorge Daniel Taillant
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
Glaciers are built and destroyed during ice ages and interglacial periods. These massive ice bodies hold three quarters of our freshwater, yet we don’t have laws to protect them from climate change. When they melt, they increase sea levels, alter the Earth’s reflectivity, wreak havoc for ocean and air currents, destabilize global ecosystems, warm our climate, and bring on floods that swamp millions of acres of coastal land.
The critical ecological role they play to keep our global climate stable, and the environmental functions they provide, wither. And, as climate change warms glacier cores, collapsing glacier ice triggers tsunamis that send deadly massive ice blocks, rocks, earth, and billions of liters of water rushing down mountain valleys. It has happened before in the Himalayas, the Central Andes, the Rockies, the Western Cascades, and the European Alps, and it will happen again.