Global warming: Tibet's lofty glaciers melt away

[gulfcoastliberal]

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1990381.ece

The Qinghai-Tibet plateau is home to tens of thousands of glaciers, fields of ice at the roof of the world where Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks look down on China and Nepal.

But the glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought, fresh research by Chinese scientists shows, as global warming speeds up the shrinkage of more than 80 per cent of the 46,377 glaciers on the lofty plateau.

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China will soon have to add more deserts, droughts and sandstorms to its already lengthy list of pollution woes, while India and Nepal will have to deal with staggering environmental consequences, as the melting lakes of ice threaten essential natural resources for the large population centres at the foot of the mountain ranges.

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Global warming is causing China's highland glaciers, including those covering Everest, to shrink by an amount equivalent to all the water in the Yellow River every year.

[burrowowl]

1. The world has to get it ass in gear quickly!

Here is hoping that the new Democratic Congress will act on this issue for the US of A soon!

[thingfisher]

2. One can hardly imagine the

the consequences of what such changes will mean to the stability of world governments and the prospects for the future.
Perhaps the magnitude of the problems will force the nations into a united world government to implement unsavory policies to deal with the catastrophic displacements of resources?

[jumpoffdaplanet]

3. Maybe it will convinced China to stop

developing dirty coal power and switching from bikes to cars.