Update: BEIJING: Scientific study found Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydro power project, has not contributed to climate change

Climate research exonerates giant dam: "The study, published by the Social Sciences Academic Press under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, focused on climate change and found that the dam's environmental impact was limited to a 20 kilometre radius, the Xinhua article said. ''No direct link has been found between the dam and local severe droughts and floods in recent years, according to the report, which instead laid the blame on extreme weather conditions caused by abnormal atmospheric circulation and air temperature mainly incurred by changes in ocean temperature and snow conditions at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,'' says the article, published on Friday."

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