{"id":12327,"date":"2016-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/factsheet-tibet-and-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:00:00","slug":"factsheet-tibet-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/factsheet-tibet-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Factsheet &#8211; Tibet and climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tibet-and-Climate-Change-629x890.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Tibet-and-Climate-Change-629x890.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"385\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Tibet, the world\u2019s largest and highest plateau, is referred to as the \u2018world\u2019s third pole\u2019 because it contains the biggest ice fields outside of the Arctic and Antarctic and is as important to the world climate as the two poles. The Tibetan plateau is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and the impact of the now melting glaciers will be catastrophic.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tibet-and-Climate-Change.pdf\">Click here to download the full factsheet in PDF.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibet, the world\u2019s largest and highest plateau, is referred to as the \u2018world\u2019s third pole\u2019 because it contains the biggest ice fields outside of the Arctic and Antarctic and is as important to the world climate as the two poles. 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