It’s difficult to find a silver lining for this impact of global warming. The outlook for the glaciers of the Himalays is grim. They are in retreat. The increase melt is creating runoff disasters and the long term outlook is for the fresh water source for a billion people to wane. There is nothing to do here except stabilize global climate through radical change in the way we live. I think [1] Bill McKibben is correct in setting the target at [2] 350 ppm for CO2. I don’t know how we get there, but I think we are looking at global disaster if we don’t. As Bucky Fuller said, we can afford to do anything that we have to do.

[3] clipped from [4] abcnews.go.com In the Indian Himalayas, You Can Hear Climate Change Before You Can See It CHHOTA SHIGRI GLACIER, INDIAN HIMALAYAS, August 08, 2008 By NICK SCHIFRIN In the Indian Himalayas, you can literally hear the glaciers melting. The river that rushes through the Lahaul-Spiti Valley is fed almost entirely by melt from the surrounding glaciers. The sound of the river’s rapids has never been this loud. The level of the water has never been this high. In other words, the glaciers have never receded this quickly. [5]