Climate change has put Western Canada’s glaciers on track for devastating loss over the coming decades, with the southern half of B.C. expected to lose nearly 75 per cent of the alpine ice — even if warming stops today, a new study has found.
The planet has so far warmed an average of about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. If that increase climbs to 1.5 degrees C, 81 per cent of Western Canadian and U.S. glacier mass would melt, according to the study published Thursday in the journal Science.
Western Canada’s glacier loss rises to 98 per cent — near annihilation levels — if Earth’s average temperatures rise
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