Added to all this, the Himalayan glacier at the "roof of the world" is rapidly receding, and this might create widespread flooding of the seven great Asian rivers that it feeds--including the Yangtze, Yellow River, Ganges, and Mekong.
加上「世界屋脊」喜馬拉雅山冰河也迅速退卻，發源於此的亞洲 7 大河流──長江、黃河、恆河、湄公河等，都可能造成大規模洪水氾濫，危及內陸平原精華區。