Dr. Robert Rohde
@RARohde · Zurich, Switzerland · joined 04 Jan 2017
Chief Scientist @BerkeleyEarth. Physics PhD & data nerd. Usually focused on climate change, fossil fuels, & air quality issues.
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@RARohde The better question to ask is why does everything have to be climate change?
This bullshit is getting old.
Sometimes things just happen.
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It's been utterly obvious for ages that responses have been far too slow and the Earth's temperature will inevitably rise beyond 1.5 °C of warming.
The only thing new here is that the UN is finally saying so plainly.
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Since some people seem to have missed it, the Nepali glacier collapse and landslide occurred following a multi-day heatwave that was record-breaking for that location and time of year.
Additional context: https://t.co/WxWQNbl9jP https://t.co/MM2sgxjAdn
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The bedrock under a melting glacier fractured after the warmest week of 2026, but some will confidently tell you that it obviously had nothing to do with climate change.
Feels like an anti-vax argument actually. Dying with climate change, not because of climate change?
Sigh.
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@RARohde It is also well known we are still thawing out from the Little Ice Age, but less well known within the Al Gore bubble. https://t.co/LXAIcoWTEI
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At least the dumb typos might let people know I'm not using AI to write my tweets. 😫
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All landslides involve an interplay of complex factors
Glaciologists and geologists will work to pin down the details, but melting is known to make events like this more likely, and given the circumstances it would be surprising if global warming wasn't a factor here.
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Was the tragedy in Nepal and Tibet due, in part, to climate change?
My view is probably yes.
The connection remains circumstantial and lacks a smoking gun, but the circumstances certainly make it seem likely.
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The resulting pulverized ice, rock, and water raced through the river valleys, gathering additional water along the way, and completely destroyed many low lying settlements in Nepal and Tibet.
At least 1,000 people died, while 3,900 remain missing.
https://t.co/b3ttzGNNUj
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A huge block of ice and rock, covering an area of roughly ~1 km², slid ~1200 m down the mountain gathering speed and energy as it went.
https://t.co/i4it34FDuz
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The ultimate failure was utterly massive, generating seismic waves equivalent to a magnitude 5.2 earthquake.
Based on the energy released, it was estimated that ~400 million tonnes of material came down.
https://t.co/ySLrmi831k
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Post-event photos suggest that the ice (and possibly rock) failed close to the top of the existing slope.
If much of the rock and ice remained solid until the point of failure, then the top of the slope would likely have the greatest stresses.
https://t.co/7jgGcQ4LzP
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Meltwater and higher temperatures can also cause permafrost to thaw.
At elevations like this, where annual average temperatures are well below freezing, permafrost often plays a role in sealing cracks and reinforcing the underlying rock. Thus thawing can weaken the rock.
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Melting glaciers on a steep slope will thin and weaken, and become more prone to fracture and collapse.
They also produce water that can seep into cracks in the ground and lubricate the ice-rock interface.
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Now what does this have to do with the failure and landslide?
We don't yet know whether the ice failed first and brought rock down with it, or if the rock failed first and brought down the glacier.
But the glacier had likely been changing in response to a warming climate.
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This is consistent with other studies of the Langtang catchment. The glaciers in this region have been gradually shrinking since the Little Ice Age, but that melting has accelerated recently.
https://t.co/nSuy7S7WgO
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Melting degree days provide us a way to crudely convert the temperature changes into an estimate of how much melting to expect.
We find annual melting at 5200 m likely doubled from the mid 20th century to the early 21st century, with 2024 and 2025 almost double again.
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This Nepali glacier had probably been thinning and weakening for years, or even decades.
But it ultimately failed during the warmest week in one of its warmest years on record.
It would be a hell of a coincidence if global warming wasn't at least partially to blame.
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Summer 2026 is estimated to have been 4th warmest on record for this Nepali glacier, behind 2024, 2025, and 2022.
In addition, the collapse occurred at the end of a 6-day heatwave that featured several of the warmest August days on record.
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Fifty years ago, it would appear that only a short period of summer melting would be expected in this part of the collapsing glacier.
Unfortunately, global warming has greatly expanded the duration and intensity of summer melt in this region at 5200m elevation.
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I will be using ERA5 Reanalysis but specifically bias corrected for both elevation & seasonality with a network of high-elevation weather stations from the southern Himalayas.
Doing that we find that the mean summer temperature at this site had been climbing for decades.
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Well, there it is. The scene at the location where it all began. It looks almost like a small nuclear bomb was detonated in the valley.
Photo credit: Dr. Guoxiong Zheng (गुवसियोङ् चङ्) https://t.co/KE8TblwtED
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Landsat 9 captured very clear images of the Himalayan glacier that collapsed, triggering the catastrophic flash floods in Nepal.
Estimating very roughly from these images, it appears that the area that failed may have spanned ~1 km² of ice and rock.
h/t @theiaincameron https://
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It's a hard time for everyone. I work for a small non-profit, @BerkeleyEarth, and we need your help.
We fund our work with grants & donations. If you like our work on climate change, and have a bit spare, perhaps consider making a donation.
Thank you.
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| Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores) | 3.59% | 3.62% | 0.99× |
| Taxa de engajamento | 3.33% | 1.52% | 2.19× |
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