"Climate change is causing the net shrinkage and retreat of glaciers and the increase in size and number of glacial lakes", Absolutely true, if we conclude so?
Tsho Rolpa is a Lake located in Nepal.
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It is not possible to say that its increase in size is due to global warming without more information. Has it continued to grow since 1993? What is damning it? Is it a glacier? If so has the glacier failed in the past letting the lake drain and it is now refilling?
Yes, it is continued. And, it a glacier lake.
Many outlets of syphonic action are provided to prevent it from outbrust!
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That is not unique. In the spring of 1818 an young engineer Ignace Venetz was engaged to drain the Lac de Mauvoisin, which was blocked by the Gietroz Glacier. The locals were aware of the danger because an outburst flood from the same valley had killed 140 people and wrecked 500 buildings in 1595. In June the ice dam failed, but without the work of Venetz there would have been many more casualties. [Woodward, J. (2014) The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction, 1 edition., Oxford, Oxford University Press.]
So what you are describing has happened at least twice before anthropogenic global warming was a problem. However, there are several of those lakes forming in the Himalaya, and the melting glaciers caused by AGW are filling them.
Another problem with AGW is that the ice on the mountains is needed to feed the rivers during the summer for agriculture. The answer to that problem may be to follow the example of Lac de Mauvoisin which has now been dammed by man to produce a reservoir.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331076568_Global_Warming_Mitigation_Through_Carbon_Sequestrations_in_the_Central_Western_Ghats
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