Climate change the culprit for Tibet avalanche

On July 17, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there.

To perform a kind of forensic analysis of the avalanche, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences joined with two glaciologists from The Ohio State University: Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and research scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC), and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in Geography and director of BPCRC.

The most important fact about the avalanche, said Thompson, is that it lasted only four or five minutes (according to witnesses), yet it managed to bury 3.7 square miles of the valley floor in that time. He said something -- likely melt-water at the base of the glacier -- must have lubricated the ice to speed its flow down the mountain.

Climate change is no longer something people can logically deny. There are studies and facts the fully support climate change is real and happening right now. This is another example of the dangers that come with climate change. 

When 70 million tons of ice causes a deadly avalanche, it's time to wake up and realize this is not something that can be brushed off any longer. These types of disasters cannot be predicted but researchers have determined that meltwater is the reason for this one. 

I don't know how people can still deny climate change. How many more disasters have to happen in order for people to stop thinking this is a hoax?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161209080826.htm