Climate Change Primed Nepal Glacier for Deadly Collapse — SkimNews
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- Climate attribution researchers say there is 'absolutely no doubt' that decades of global warming set the stage for the deadly rock and glacier collapse on Nepal's Langtang Lirung Mountain, which killed at least 1,300 people in August
- The August cascade that hit communities below the peak consisted of semi-frozen sludge, boulders, trees, and other debris
Why it matters: Attribution researchers' stated certainty that warming primed the 1,300-death August collapse gives Himalayan communities one of the most conclusively attributed climate mass-casualty events on record — anchoring loss-and-damage and adaptation claims to a single disaster in Nepal.
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