Research Over Tibet Gives Climate Insight

An anonymous reader writes "NASA is reporting that researchers have discovered thunderstorms above Tibet offer a direct path for water vapor and chemicals to move from the lower atmosphere to the stratosphere. From the article: ' Learning how water vapor reaches the stratosphere can help improve climate prediction models. Similarly, understanding the pathways that ozone-depleting chemicals can take to reach the stratosphere is essential for understanding future threats to the ozone layer, which shields Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.'"

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Tibet?

[fishbowl]

Don't they mean Xizang? "Tibet" is a nice idea for activist bumper stickers and so on, but it's not a contemporary geographical designation. They might as well refer to Iran as Persia, or Turkey as the Ottoman Empire. What's next? Weather reports for Prussia? Travel guides for Siam?