Global warming melting glaciers in QuinHai

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Global warming melting glaciers at roof of world

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1766224,00.html

Glaciers in western China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau, known as the "roof of the world", are melting at a rate of 7% a year due to global warming. The official Xinhua news agency said the figure was drawn from data over four decades.

Statistics show that average temperatures in Tibet have risen by 0.9C since the 1980s. The glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau account for 47% of China's total glacier coverage.


The melting glaciers will eventually lead to drought, more desertification and more sandstorms, Xinhua quoted a researcher, Dong Guangrong at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as saying.

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