Climate Breakdown Rapidly Altering Prospects For China's Yellow River

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Beijing - Global warming is leading to widespread ecological decline at the headwaters of the Yellow River, threatening water supplies to 120-million people, an environmental group said on Monday. In a study commissioned by Greenpeace, scientists said global warming was melting glaciers and permafrost, which in turn was breaking up and drying out the land, turning grasslands into deserts and leaving lakes and rivers without water.

"Climate change is wreaking havoc at the birthplace of China's mother river," said Greenpeace China climate change researcher Li Mo Xuan. "The plight of the Yellow River is a grave warning. Millions of people are at risk from climate change and the world must act now to reduce carbon dioxide emissions."

The Tibetan Plateau, known as the "roof of the world" and the source of both the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, China's two longest, has seen an overall temperature rise of nearly one degree Celsius during the past 30 years, the report said. "The higher the altitude, the faster the temperature rises," it said.

The rise in temperature has resulted in the glacier area in the region decreasing by 17 percent in 2000 compared with 1966. In the last 30 years, the shrinkage rate of the glacier area has been 10 times faster than that of the previous 300 years.

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1. "Climate Breakdown:

An excellent phrase. Says a lot more than "Global Warming" or "Climate Change."

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2. As a humorous asside that will be taken lightly, and not to

minimize the importance of the original post... but.. in school... we used to have a reference to a book entitled The Yellow River.... by.... I.P.Daily.... funny then, not so funny now.... please forgive.

And global warming is all just some environmentalist's pipe dream..... not.

It's going to get to the point where the ENTIRE WORLD with all its resources, military and so forth will have to spend their entire efforts just to curb what is happening now as if it were possible.

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3. Was that written by Seymour Butz?

The same guy who wrote the classic "Under The Bleachers"?

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4. Ummmmmm..... The Crooked Bicycle Seat by

Won Hung Lo.... heh heh heh....