Glaciers cover only about two per cent of B.C., but they help to moderate stream and river flow in much of the province throughout much of the year.
The CRD reported last week that the combined levels of the Sooke and Goldstream reservoirs have reached above 92 per cent. That’s up from 86 per cent a month ago and 68 per cent in early December.
Indeed, by the year 2100, the majority of Earth’s remaining glacier ice will exist in southeastern Alaska, the Northern Coast Mountains, Yukon, the northeastern Canadian and Russian Arctic and mountains that fringe the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, researchers say. What happens after, however, depends on how successful we are at lowering our emissions and slowing climate change.
Follow those events up with the June heat, and the stage was set for extreme drought and out-of-control wildfire across much of the region. Without glaciers’ contributions to B.C. creeks, rivers and lakes, we’ll see more and more dry river- and lakebeds in coming years, with all the problems that that causes.
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