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The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which ran in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzst
The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which ran in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzst
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2011-02-03
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The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which ran in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall.
The study is the first to survey all the world’s icecaps and glaciers and was made possible by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps— Greenland and Antarctica—is much less than previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia responsible for most of the discrepancy.
Bristol University glaciologist Prof Jonathan Bamber, who was not part of the research team, said: "The very unexpected result was the negligible mass loss from high mountain Asia, which is not significantly different from zero."
The melting of Himalayan glaciers caused controversy in 2009 when a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly stated that they would disappear by 2035, instead of 2350. However, the scientist who led the new work is clear that while greater uncertainty has been discovered in Asia’s highest mountains, the melting of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern.
"Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year," said Prof John Wahr of the University of Colorado. "People should be just as worried about the melting of the world’s ice as they were before."
His team’s study, published in the journal Nature, concludes that between 443-629bn tonnes of meltwater overall are added to the world’s oceans each year. This is raising sea level by about 1.5mm a year, the team reports, in addition to the 2mm a year caused by expansion of the warming ocean.
The scientists are careful to point out that lower-altitude glaciers in the Asian mountain ranges—sometimes
dubbed
the "third pole"—are definitely melting. Satellite images and reports confirm this. But over the study period from 2003-10 enough ice was added to the peaks to compensate.
The impact on predictions for future sea level rise is yet to be fully studied but Bamber said: "The projections for sea level rise by 2100 will not change by much, say 5cm or so, so we are talking about a very small modification." Existing estimates range from 30cm to lm.
Wahr warned that while crucial to a better understanding of ice melting, the eight years of data is a relatively short time period and that variable monsoons mean year-to-year changes in ice mass of hundreds of billions of tonnes. "It is awfully dangerous to take an eight-year record and predict even the next eight years, let alone the next century," he said.
From The Guardian, February 8, 2012
What did Wahr view of this study according to the passage?
选项
A、It is dangerous for the future study.
B、It is a significant study.
C、It is useless for the future study.
D、It offers a sound prediction.
答案
B
解析
本题为理解题。文章最后提到“Wahr warned that while crucial to a better understanding of ice melting,the eight years of data is a relatively short time period and that variable monsoons mean year-to-year changes in ice mass of hundreds of billions of tonnes.‘It is awfully dangerous to take an eight-year record and predict even the next eight years,let alone the next century’,he said.”意为:Wahr教授警告说:虽然这个八年的数据对于我们了解冰川融化很重要,但它还是一段相对比较短的时期,用八年的记录去预测之后的八年是很危险的,更不用说拿其去预测下一个世纪的变化。所以应当选B。
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