Saturday 12 December 2009: Climate activists made protests against the politicians slow developments at the COP15 Climate Meeting in Copenhagen

The politicians and other delegates at official UN Climate Meeting are making slow progress, whereas several parallel meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark held by NGOs and climate activists are faster to agree. They demand immediate actions to stop the global climate changes.

During the climate meeting almost 40,000 protesters participated in a large demonstration in Copenhagen. The demonstrators gathered in front of Christiansborg, the Danish Parliament to march against the Bella Conference Center where the climate conference is held. The march went on for almost three hours and was a peaceful demonstration. However, the Copenhagen Police arrested close to 1,000 persons because the police suspected them to have made plans of organized violence.

The Thorthormi Glacier is now a lake in Bhutan

It would be a false belief if one imagined that warmer weather was appreciated in the cold mountainous areas. The consequences of the global warming is not pleasant but a disaster.

One example of what can be expected is exemplified by what has happened in Bhutan, Himalaya. The large glacier Thorthormi has melted during the last 20 years; what used to be permanent ice is now a lake. However, water is not as stable and solid as ice. There is therefore a big risk of a landslide, or rather ‘waterslide’; and when the rim around the lake eventually will burst, it will be a catastrophe with thousands of casualties, and even more homeless.

In the Himalaya the Thorthormi is not the only ‘melt down’. The ongoing tendency of melting glaciers will result in a disaster, not only in the Himalaya, but even worse in the surrounding areas at a lower altitude. Some of the big rivers will change from providing a steady supply of water, and instead they will be torrent floods during a few months of the year, but dried out rivers for about 6 months per year.

The result will most likely be that more than 100 million people in Asia will become refugees because of the climate changes.