Londen (Reuters) – sommige gletsjers van de cordillera van de

Himalaya won een kleine hoeveelheid massa tussen 1999 en 2008,

volgens nieuwe onderzoek, weerstand te bieden aan de wereldwijde trend

de daling van de gletsjers.

zei ook dat de studie gepubliceerd in aard Geoscience

die het bereik Karakoram in in de Himalaya had bijgedragen

minder naar de stijging van de zeespiegel dan werd gedacht

eerder.

de stijging van de mondiale temperaturen smelten van de

ijskappen en polaire ijskappen en het water dat deze

pour draagt bij aan de stijging van het niveau van de zeeën, die

bedreigt populaties van Naties en eilanden gelegen op loopafstand van het

hoogte.

de French University of Grenoble research

estimates that the glaciers of the Karakoram won between 0.11 and 0.22

meters per year between 1999 and 2008.

“our conclusion is that the glaciers of the Karakoram have

had a small profit of mass at the beginning of the 21st century that

indicates that the glaciers in the East/Centre are not representative

(the Himalayas) set”, said experts of the

University.

the study seems to confirm previous research that

had suggested that the Karakoram glaciers had not followed

the global trend of decline in the last three decades. the

isolation of the mountains had made it difficult to confirm this

pattern.

the Karakoram mountain range extends along of the

borders between India, China and Pakistan and is covered by

19.950 square kilometers of glaciers there is located the

second highest mountain in the world, the K2.

“suggest that the contribution to the increase of the level of the

sea in this region in the first decade of the 21st century should

review + 0.04 mm per year to – 0.006 mm per year equivalent to the

sea level”, said the study.

Himalaya boasts the largest amount of ice of the

planet outside the polar icecaps and fed many of

the great rivers of the world, including the Ganges and the

Brahmaputra, which depend on hundreds of thousands of people

worldwide glaciers, polar ice caps and ice sheets

have poured about 4,200 cubic kilometers from 2003 to 2010,

according to suggest experts, which is sufficient to raise the

about 12 mm sea level in die periode.