Nepal Floods Caused By Bedrock Failure
As revealed by Fox News in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, satellite images have revealed that the Nepal floods were caused by a massive bedrock failure, not a glacial landslide:
Earth scientists have finally shed light on how the tragic Nepal flood that claimed thousands of lives happened, with the latest satellite images revealing not just the glacier, but also that the bedrock under the glacier had collapsed.
Geomorphologists Kristen Cook and Dan Shugar claimed that further analysis of the satellite images from Nepal revealed there was a “big bedrock failure that took part of the glacier with it.”
The glacier broke off in a northwest direction and then fell westward into the river flow.
They told AP that clouds and debris obscured initial images from Nepal on Wednesday, so they could only see that part of a glacier had broken off from the Langtang Lirung peak, near the border with Tibet. However, the images taken on Thursday revealed that the bedrock underneath the glacier had collapsed, taking the massive chunk of ice down with it and sending boulders and ice into the valley.
“It shows the whole area without anything hidden, and we could see that, yes, it looked like there was not only this glacier that had failed, but a much larger chunk of the bedrock of the mountainside itself that had given way,” said Shugar, associate professor at the University of Calgary. “You have this big bedrock failure that took part of the glacier with it.”
Cook said the debris buried villages. It slammed into the valley floor while maintaining its momentum through the steep, narrow valley as ice melted. The expert who works at the Universite Grenoble Alpes in France said water and mud several stories high swept through communities.
Full story here.
Even now, some idiots are claiming that the bedrock collapse was caused by melting of permafrost. Cook and Shugar say there is no evidence of this.
The claim is absurd anyway. The glacier which collapsed was 17,000ft up in the Himalayas, where temperatures rarely get above zero.
If it was warm enough to melt the permafrost, the glacier itself would already have melted.
source notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com
Terry Shipman
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But…but…CLIMATE CHANGE! That refrain really gets on my nerves.
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