Pindari Glacier - Wikipedia In this article the climate change in the Himalayas is considered and numerous original data sources are used so that you can make up your own minds about the extent and consequences of any warming. It is suggested that if current trends continue the Ganges could be severely compromised during severe droughts within 50 years but the Indus is fairly secure. Local Warming - the Himalayas Why worry about the Himalayan glaciers? There are no glaciers in Scotland but the mountains feed the rivers with copious water all the year round. Should we be specially concerned about the effects of global climate change on the Himalayas? The Himalaya is a vast area. It contains 12000 glaciers that occupy 33000 square kilometres. In the West of the Himalayas the glaciers act like Alpine glaciers, they store ice in the winter and release water into rivers in the summer and this dominates the flow of the Indus in the summer. In the East (East of the Chenab basin) ...