"We were surprised to see how climate extremes in the Amazon are connected to climate extremes in Tibet“, said Jurgen Kurths, co-author of a study by scientists from China, Europe and Israel published this month in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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Scientists used computer simulations to map how the global warming could determine these long-distance correlations by the year 2100.
From this, they discovered that when it is hotter in Amazon, the temperature also increases on the Tibetan Plateau. On the other hand, when it rains more in the Amazon rainforest, it snows less in the Himalayan region, which is also called “the third pole” of the planet due to the amount of fresh water it stores in the form of ice.
Based on available data on the amount of snow in the region, the study authors say they saw early signs that the Tibet has been approaching, since 2008, the point of no return.
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The Tibetan Plateau provides much of the water consumed by about 2 billion people in Asia.
Another article published in the journal Nature Climate Change last year stated that climate change threatens water stored in the Tibet, which puts the supply of millions of people on the Asian continent at risk.
(To AFP)
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