Global Warming Taking it's Toll on Asia...sooner than anyone thought

The following story that I just came across really made me think.

A great glacier that supplies "life giving water" to a very large portion of Asia and it's millions of people is melting and evaporating much faster than anyone previously imagined was possible.

The glaciers are situated on the Tibetan Plateau which covers a wide portion of Central Asia and contain close to a 6th of the world's ice. The plateau covers 60,000 square miles and has up to 46,000 glaciers that are in the midst of melting.

This plateau was created close to 60 million years ago when due to continental shifting, the Indian continent came crashing into Asia, thus forcing up the land ridges between the two and creating the Himalayas and the plateau beyond it.

Imagine.....60 million years ago this was all created and 60 million years later it is beginning to disappear!
Humans had not even evolved yet at that point in our planet's history....at least according to most scientific observations.....and Global Warming which some say are caused by us humans....is quickly eroding what has been part of our planet for 50-60 million years.
I find that absolutely astounding to say the least....

One would think that the melting of the glaciers would flow into the great rivers of Asia as they have been doing for thousands of years.....but due to global warming, the ice that is melting is evaporating BEFORE it even gets to those rivers, thus causing massive sandstorms that are even now currently spreading across the Asian continent. This is starting to imperil the lives of up to 300 Million people in China alone, who depend on the waters from these glaciers for their very survival.

Click on the link below for the full story and to learn more about one of the many horrific results of the global changes that are effecting our planet and thus humanity on a whole....even as I write this missive.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article362549.ece

Is it too late to halt some of these massive ecological changes or is there something that the human race can do to stem the changes....such as this one that poses one of the worst ecological disasters the world will ever see??

And if something like this is happening on the other great continent of the planet....how long before the same thing happens on our own American continent.

(Unless it is already happening here.......the weather patterns sure have been strange over the course of the last few years and they seem to be getting stranger and stranger).