Climate Facts: Glaciers will continue melting even if temperatures stabilise, study finds

The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can prove difficult to digest.

TheCable’s quick climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.

Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:

• A new study by the World Weather Attribution, Climate Central and the Red Cross says human-driven climate change caused nearly half of the world to endure an extra month of extreme heat over the past year.

• The report said the extreme heat caused deaths and illnesses, damaged crops, and strained healthcare systems.

• A study published in Biological Reviews says dams are severely disrupting life cycles of aquatic species that migrate between rivers and oceans.

• The report finds that dams are reducing the populations of diadromous species — a type of fish that regularly migrates between freshwater and saltwater environments — by fragmenting their habitats and cutting off access to vital breeding and feeding grounds.

• A study conducted by an international team of researchers and published in Science, says about 40 percent of the world’s glacier mass is already set to disappear due to greenhouse gas emissions.

• The study added that glaciers will continue to melt for centuries even if global temperatures normalise in the short term.