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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In 1997 a group of Chinese and American glaciologists extracted ice-core data from the world's highest site in central Tibet. Under harsh physical conditions, 7,200 metres above sea level, the team recovered three ice cores from the Dasuopu glacier that revealed current temperatures were the highest in a thousand years. Expeditions across the Tibetan Plateau have confirmed an accelerated warming trend that is leading to significant glacial retreat, especially on the northern slope of Mount Everest in the western Himalaya. If this trend persists, the humanitarian, economic and geopolitical consequences will be dire.
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