Meltdown: The Impact of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau (with live video webcast) /冰川融化：气候变化对青藏高原的影响（现场播出视频） January 16, 2009

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

Featuring keynote speaker IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri, distinguished glaciologists Lonnie Thompson and Yao Tandong, as well as mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears, this symposium will look at the effects of these changes on the millions living downstream in China and Southeast Asia who are dependent on the waters of such rivers as the Yangtse, the Yellow River, the Mekong, the Salween, the Irrawaddy, the Indus and the Brahmaputra for their water supply.

Cost: Free admission; advance registration required. Call the Asia Society Box Office at 212-517-ASIA or visit https://tickets.asiasociety.org to register.

亚洲大多数河流发源于青藏高原。但是随着全球气温升高，青藏 高原的冰川和永久冻土层正在以惊人的速度融化。

主要演讲人包括联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）主席拉金德拉·帕乔里，著名冰河学家朗尼·汤普森、姚檀栋，登山家和电影人大卫•布里什尔斯。此次会议关注中国境内数百万条下游河流和依靠长江、黄河、萨尔温江、伊洛瓦底江、印度河、雅鲁藏布江提供水源的东南亚国家河流变化带来的影响。
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