Warning from the warming of 'The Roof of the World'

The rising temperature in the ' Roof of the World' will have major impacts on climate change and the environment on a global scale, warning Chinese scientists.

These impacts include melting glaciers, causing many sandstorms, droughts, drying up China's main rivers .

The figure gathered by scientists from the Tibetan-Qinghai plateau shows that since the 1980s, the temperature here has increased by 0.42 ⁰ C every 10 years.

One of the worst consequences of this increase in temperature is to change the amount of water flowing in the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and other rivers originating in the mountains of Tibet.

In addition to rising temperatures, the amount of snow covering the Tibetan plateau also decreased by 10% compared to other years.(Artwork: Ram.org)

'Rising temperatures make us look for answers to a series of questions: how will this change affect the neighborhood climate, the remaining regions of China, Asia and even? is it the world? ', Xu Xiangde, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Science Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Daily .

While Xu made the statement, about 500 scientists and officials gathered in Paris to discuss solutions to the global warming problem, including: how fast global warming is growing, how serious and how much people are responsible .

Xu said that over the decades of studying the plateau, scientists have found that any change or movement of clouds or steam in Tibet causes an immediate, or later, impact on with weather conditions in other parts of China and even the world.

For example, based on analysis of data from satellites, Xu and colleagues discovered the strong movement of these highland clouds in July 1998 as the cause of summer floods in the same year - the worst flood in China in many decades.

China and Japan are now cooperating in a four-year meteorological research project to build new generation observation stations above and around the Tibetan plateau to warn of catastrophic disasters. details may occur.

In addition, China has also worked with the US, South Korea and other countries to clarify climate change in this plateau.

According to reports, storms, floods and droughts killed 2,704 people in China and caused economic losses of 212 billion yuan in 2006. This is also the hottest year since 1951.

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