Spesso si fa fatica a trovare il documento spesso citato dell'IPCC.
La pagina in cui ci sono i report è la seguente:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_dat ... eports.htmOsservo che vi è uno statement che afferma che lo scioglimento dei ghiacciai Himalayani potrebbe creare problemi per la fornitura di acqua a circa un sesto della popolazione mondiale:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/presentations/hi ... ry2010.pdfQuote:
The Synthesis Report, the concluding document of the Fourth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (page 49) stated: “Climate change is expected to
exacerbate current stresses on water resources from population growth and economic and land-use
change, including urbanisation. On a regional scale, mountain snow pack, glaciers and small ice
caps play a crucial role in freshwater availability. Widespread mass losses from glaciers and
reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st
century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in
regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu-Kush, Himalaya, Andes),
where more than one-sixth of the world population currently lives.”
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