Report: Himalayan Glaciers May Lose 75% of Ice by 2100

Facts

The International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) published a report on Tuesday warning that glaciers in Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region may lose up to three-quarters of their volume by 2100 due to global warming.¹
According to the report, the region — spreading across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan — could lose 30-50% of its glaciers' volume by 2100 if global warming reaches 1.5°C or 2°C above pre industrial temperatures.²
This increases to 75-80% at a warming of 3°C and 4°C, respectively, with the world estimated to currently be on course to reach 3°C of warming.³
As a consequence, the organization warned the surrounding area would be subject to more frequent flash floods and avalanches, threatening the supply of fresh water for 240M people in the Himalayan region as well as 1.65B living downstream from the glaciers' 12 rivers.³
ICIMOD also found that the Himalayan glaciers had reduced 65% faster since 2010 than the ten years prior and claimed Mount Everest's glaciers had lost approximately 2K years of ice in the past three decades.⁴
ICIMOD's deputy director general Izabella Koziell stated that "there is still time to save this critical region" and urged for quick action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.⁵

Narrative A, as provided by The Daily Star. Global warming is taking a heavy toll on the world's glaciers, with the impact potentially affecting hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people. With a loss of freshwater, an increase in natural disasters, less reflective surfaces to reduce surrounding temperatures even further, as well as a reduction of ecological life, the loss of earth's glaciers would be devastating. Attention must be refocused on their preservation, or else many in the world will find themselves displaced from potentially irrecoverable habitats.
Narrative B, as provided by Forbes. While climate change is an urgent issue, journalists and activists have an obligation to separate the facts from fiction and describe environmental problems honestly and accurately. The catastrophic framing of climate change does far more harm than good, not only by impacting the mental health of our youth, but by alienating and polarizing large portions of the population and distracting from other important issues. Climate alarmism must be taken with a grain of salt.