News Forum - Air pollution threatens water supply in Tibetan Plateau for two billion people

[Thaiger]

The Tibetan Plateau – also known as “The Roof of The World” and the “Asian Water Tower” – is the world’s largest and highest plateau. As the third largest storage of ice in the world, it is the source of several important Asian rivers and a crucial source of water for up to two billion people. A new study reports that an air pollutant called black carbon threatens unprecedented glacial melting in the plateau. Black carbon is a fine particle soot byproduct of fossil fuel and biomass combustion. It absorbs solar energy warming up its surroundings and contributing to global warming. […]

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[Giltee]

They’ve left out volcanic black carbon but of course it doesn’t go with the fear mongering manmade doomsday rhetoric