Not to worry. Richard Gere and his gerbils are on the case.
Posted on 01/07/2007 1:49:27 PM PST by presidio9
Temperatures in rugged Tibet have hit record highs in recent days, China's state press has reported, as a scientific survey warned of the impact of global warming in the Himalayan region.
Friday's temperature in the Qamdo area of eastern Tibet was 21.8 degrees Celsius (71 degrees Fahrenheit), 1.7 degrees higher than the previous record set for the same day in 1996, Xinhua news agency reported.
In Dengqen county, also in eastern Tibet, the mercury reached 16.6 degrees Celsius on Thursday, 2.5 degrees higher than the previous record for the same day set in 2001, it said.
Eight other places across the region also recorded record-breaking daily temperatures over the past few days, it added.
Meteorological data in the Himalayan region began to be collected in 1970.
China's Tibet plateau, seen as a barometer of world climate conditions, is experiencing accelerating glacial melt and other ecological change, the leading People's Daily reported Friday.
The mountainous region's glaciers have been melting at an average rate of 131.4 square kilometers (50 square miles) per year over the past 30 years, the paper said, citing a recent geological study.
Researchers who conducted the survey said that even if global warming did not worsen, the area's glaciers would be reduced by nearly a third by 2050 and up to half by 2090, at the current rate.
The survey, conducted by the Remote Sensing Department of the China Aero Geophysical Survey, also found a rapidly rising snow line, shrinking wetlands, and increased desertification compared with 30 years ago, the paper said.
These problems will worsen as the glacial melt -- which has accelerated in recent years -- continues, further depleting the area's water resources, the researchers predicted.
The Tibet plateau, which includes the Chinese portion of the Himalayas, accounts for nearly one quarter of China's landmass, stretching from Tibet to the adjacent provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan.
A separate national assessment released last week on the impact of climate change said temperatures in China would rise significantly in coming decades, water shortages would worsen, and extreme weather events would intensify.
I bet they aren't too worried about it, ever been to Tibet this time of year? A little Global Warming would be a welcome relief to that region in the wintertime.
They are complaining about 71 degree weather during the winter? This is why I live in Florida.
Here's the headline that I'll see for the rest of my life:
" ______ ______ spark climate change fears "
Fill in the blanks with whatever weather you're having at the moment. Fear is a great way to manipulate people. And guess who's doing the sparking?
I check temperatures on www.wunderground.com and you can find years when it was really hot, like 1938. You can find years it was really cold. I don't know how far back they go, but back into the 1930s for sure. You can pick a day and see what the record highs are lows are for that day. Seems to be a big weather cycle at work. Some hot summers, some mild ones, some cold winters, some mild ones.
And my daughter is a HydroGeologist and she has to study rocks and water and the history of the earth's climate and she LAUGHS at human caused glowbull warming! Laughs at it. Says it is so stupid that it isn't worth arguing against. It quite simply does not exist.
I LOVE global warming! It was 69 degrees in Boston yesterday.
Sometimes this time of year, it can be "near zero with the wind chill". Gas prices go down because less of a demand
for heating oil.
There have been occasional days like this. I live near
Boston and I remember a Dec 1 when it was in the 60s
and I saw people in the harbor with jet-skis.
Yesterday it was good news for golf courses, bad for
ski areas.
Question for those who say we're causing global warming:
what caused the global warming when the glaciers melted?
What factories and SUVs were around then?
You're always going to break records, because you can't unbreak them.
18 die as icy Himalayan air hits Nepal lowlands
The MSM has completely lost it.
I am going to hell.
This is where I stopped reading.
Not even a hundred years worth of data. What a joke.
The MSM and the activists, including the "global Warming" morons, heard the Nazi principle that if you want the ignorant to believe a lie, make it huge and repeat it relentlessly.
They haven't yet figured out that it only workes on a homogeneous populace with delusions of superiority.
Not to worry. Richard Gere and his gerbils are on the case.
It was 70 F in NYC yesterday, 30 degrees above normal. What if, just WHAT IF, next August it's 30 degrees above normal? That would make the temperature, say 120 F?
Repeated: Your daughter is in error. Have her tell you the main reason that she thinks there is "no truth" *, post it in reply to this, and I'll refute it.
* or the main reason she thinks that it "quite simply does not exist".
I thought that Pakistan and India had the coldest winter on record this year?
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