Tibet Warming Faster Than Any Other Part Of Planet - 0.3C/Decade - Reuters

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BEIJING - Tibet is warming up faster than anywhere else in the world, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

The average annual temperature in Tibet, the roof of the world, was rising at a speed of 0.3 degrees Celsius every 10 years, Xinhua said. Chinese scientists have long warned that rising temperatures on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau will melt glaciers, dry up major Chinese rivers and trigger more droughts, sandstorms and desertification.

The Tibet Meteorological Bureau said the temperature rise was most obvious in the west of the region. Tibet, with its glaciers and high altitude, has been regarded as sensitive to the effects of global warming.

Currently, China's average temperature is rising at 0.4 degree Celsius every 100 years, while a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed the average surface temperature of the globe had risen 0.74 degree Celsius in the past 100 years, Xinhua said.

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1. That would seem to make sense. Tibet has to be one of the

coldest places, so it would seem that warming might show more there.