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Research Over Tibet Gives Climate Insight

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the natural-highs dept.

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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  1. Free Tibet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    With purchase of equal or greater value Tibet

    Offer not valid in all areas. Some restrictions may apply.

    1. Re:Free Tibet! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

      They just need to free Tibet already...

      --
      "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
    2. Re:Free Tibet! by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now we know why the Chinese want it! Ownership of Tibet is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. It offers them a direct route to get their commie water into the stratosphere where it will rain down on all freedom-loving people. It's all part of the international communist-conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.

      That's the way your hardcore commie works.

  2. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    After all these years who would have thought it was Tibet's fault?

  3. The earth is sweating! by ugmoe · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Learning how water vapor reaches the stratosphere can help improve climate prediction models."

    Oh no, global warming has become so bad that the earth is sweating!

  4. Good news/Bad news by jvalenzu · · Score: 5, Funny

    The good news: global warming will be solved within 50 years!

    The bad news: it will coincide with the deindustrialization of our civilization due to the lack of fossil fuels.