Research: Tibet sees temperature rise continuously over past 48 years

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/28/content_11271480.htm

Research: Tibet sees temperature rise continuously over past 48 years

www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-28 09:49:02
Special Report: Fight against Global Warming

LHASA, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Temperatures in Tibet have risen continuously over the past 48 years at a rate much higher than the national level, a meteorologist said Monday.

The research, based on data from 38 weather stations of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Meteorological Bureau, indicated that the average temperature in the landlocked region rose 0.32 degree Celsius every 10 years between 1961 to 2008, according to Du Jun, a senior engineer with the bureau.

In China, average temperatures rose 0.05 degree Celsius to 0.08 degree Celsius every decade, while the global level was 0.2 degree Celsius, Du said.

Lhasa, the capital, and the cities of Tsedang and Shiagatse experienced the sharpest rise of more than 0.3 degree Celsius every decade.

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1. Literally false. Becomes true when the word "average" is inserted.

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3. Well…

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/continual

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Usage note:
Although usage guides generally advise that continual may be used only to mean “intermittent” and continuous only to mean “uninterrupted,” the words are used interchangeably in all kinds of speech and writing with no distinction in meaning: The President's life is under continual (or continuous) scrutiny. Continuous (or continual) bursts of laughter punctuated her testimony. The adverbs continually and continuously are also used interchangeably. To make a clear distinction between what occurs at short intervals and what proceeds without interruption, writers sometimes use the contrasting terms intermittent (intermittent losses of power during the storm) and uninterrupted (uninterrupted reception during the storm) or similar expressions. Continuous is not interchangeable with continual in the sense of spatial relationship: a continuous (not continual) series of passages.

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2. As mountain glaciers melt, the uncovered rocks absorb more heat,

causing further melt, increasing further heat absorbtion, etc., etc., etc.