Over the past five decades, the plateau has witnessed rapid warming, with a temperature increase of about 0.4 degrees Celsius every 10 years, more than double the global average warming rate during the same period, the report noted. Citing the example of Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of Mount Everest, Wu Guangjian, a researcher at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has said, “the length and height of it are both shrinking.”
tirsdag 27. august 2024
‘Over half of Tibetan Plateau’s glaciers may melt by 2100’
Chinese scientists have warned that some low-elevation glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau may disappear permanently, which could significantly impact the plateau’s ecosystem. In fact, by the end of the current, 21st century, the loss of glacial mass in some regions of the Tibetan Plateau will exceed 50%, according to the scientists’ model predictions cited by China’s official Xinhua news agency Aug 20.
Over the past five decades, the plateau has witnessed rapid warming, with a temperature increase of about 0.4 degrees Celsius every 10 years, more than double the global average warming rate during the same period, the report noted. Citing the example of Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of Mount Everest, Wu Guangjian, a researcher at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has said, “the length and height of it are both shrinking.”
Over the past five decades, the plateau has witnessed rapid warming, with a temperature increase of about 0.4 degrees Celsius every 10 years, more than double the global average warming rate during the same period, the report noted. Citing the example of Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of Mount Everest, Wu Guangjian, a researcher at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has said, “the length and height of it are both shrinking.”
