Tibetan Glaciers & Global Warming

The Ganges, Yellow and Yangtze Rivers in India and China are fed by rains during the monsoon season, but during the dry season they depend heavily on meltwater from glaciers in the Himalayas. The Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayas alone supplies 70% of the flow of the Ganges in the dry season. Chinese glaciologists now estimate that two-thirds of the glaciers on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau could be gone by 2060. One extreme reparative scenario is to abandon business-as-usual energy policies and cut carbon emissions 80% by 2020. The first step, would be to ban new coal-fired power plants. The question is this feasible and what would be the alternative source of energy.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Ice
• environment
• global
• warming
• glaciers
• Himalayas
• energy

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