Tibetan Plateau Ice Increase: Between 1979 and 2018, ice inside the Tibetan Plateau has increased despite rising global warming, which should melt it: What is the surprising reason behind the unusual pattern?
Global warming is supposed to have one obvious effect on frozen ground: it melts.And this is what is happening across most of the world’s cold regions, from the Arctic to the Alps. But high up on the Tibetan Plateau, something strange is going on. Scientists have found that across roughly a third of the region’s…