Nepal, like the rest of the world, has already experienced a disproportionate share of the fallout from rising global temperatures and related ecological disruption. The disaster that hit Nepal was merely the tip of the iceberg; if not today, the inevitability of it happening at some point in the future was always there.
There are competing versions of what happened on that fateful morning of August 26. According to one analysis by Mike Bettes, an American meteorologist who co-hosts a show on The Weather Channel called ‘Weather Unfiltered’, this disaster traces its origins to the Yala glacier in Nepal’s central Himalayas. Over a decade, he notes that the glacier has lost about 33 feet of water equivalent (roughly the height of a 3-story building).
