RAL Seminar | March 2023 - Climate Change and Water Security on the Tibetan Plateau
Channel: NSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
Date: 11/04/2023

Ms. Lobsang Yangtso

Climate Change has a severe impact on the Himalayan glaciers and resulting in the Tibetan Plateau warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Its grassland is degrading, desertification is increasing and glaciers are melting due to both climate change and human activities. Increased glacial melting in the Himalayas, accompanied by increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns will have dire consequences on the water security in the Tibetan Plateau putting people’s livelihoods in great danger. The study will highlight the impact of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. The paper will further focus on how the rise of temperature affects water security and its consequences on people’s livelihoods. Finally, the study will analyze how Tibetans understand climate change.