Srinagar, Jan 11: A fresh study published in the reputed Nature journal on Wednesday shows that the climate crisis has reduced snowpack in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere in the last 40 years, threatening lifesaving water resources for millions of people.
J&k as part of the Indus Basin, has been found to be among the regions which has experienced the most downward trend in snow accumulation in the last 40 years.
Study of Wednesday, published by researchers at Dartmouth College in the journal Nature, highlights the big picture — climatic changes has caused significant drop in snow in the world’s north since the 1980s. Areas in the US Southwest and Northeast, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe, have experienced the steepest global warming-related downward trend of between 10% and 20% per decade
One of its warmest winters, with little or no snowfall received as of January 10, Kashmir is experiencing.
“It’s highly clear that climate change has been having negative impacts on snow and water,” said Alexander Gottlieb, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at Dartmouth College. “And every additional degree of warming is going to take away a bigger and bigger chunk of your snow water resources.”
Less snow means less water supply.