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NickB79

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Sun Mar 23, 2014, 12:49 PM Mar 2014

Global warming reaches Tibet; extreme weather on plateau

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/global-warming-reaches-tibet-extreme-weather-on-plateau/articleshow/32549350.cms

BEIJING: Global warming has reached the snow-capped Himalayas in southwest China's Tibet region as the Tibetan plateau is registering rising temperatures and extreme weather, an official climate report said.

The report on climate change and environmental monitoring in Tibet was published by Tibet Climate Centre said that the average temperature in Tibet has been rising by 0.31 degrees celsius every decade.

The report is based on analysis of climate data collected between 1961 and 2013.

Tibet is the highest region in the mid-latitudes, and seen as a barometer of global warming, Du Jun, deputy director of the centre, said.
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Global warming reaches Tibet; extreme weather on plateau (Original Post) NickB79 Mar 2014 OP
And the Chinese will damn well be concerned about this pangaia Mar 2014 #1

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. And the Chinese will damn well be concerned about this
Sun Mar 23, 2014, 06:01 PM
Mar 2014

because this is their one of main water supplies..

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