Jennibeth Loro
News Everyday
March 24, 2015
Climate change is expected to have ‘huge impacts’ on China, one of the world’s densely-populated nations. Further, it is expected to harm the environment and imperils the country’s food supply and crop yields, a weather expert admits.
According to BBC, Zheng Guogang, China’s top meteorological expert gives the announcement as a warning that China, said to be one of the topmost contributors of carbon dioxide and plastics, could be harmed by its environmental wastes.
“As the world warms, risks of climate change and climate disasters to China could become more grave. Temperature increases in China over the past century have been more extreme than global averages,” Zheng said in a press conference in Xinhua news agency as mentioned by Al Jazeera.
Further, the scientist warned that the recent global warming phenomenon is a ‘serious threat’ to infrastructure projects. It could affect Three Gorges Dam, a railway connecting Tibet with northwest China
Further, China’s carbon dioxide emissions is expected to rise up and be at its peak in 2030.
The scientist, further warned the nation that to take action and implement environmental reforms emphasizing ‘climate security.’
“To face the challenges from past and future climate change, we must respect nature and live in harmony with it. We must promote the idea of nature and emphasise climate security,” he said.
Despite these warnings, BBC said that the country’s government has not yet laid out a full-scale plan to address global warming and carbon emissions.
According to Think Progress, Zheng Guogang’s announcement came before United Nations’ World Meteorological Day.
Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Association aims to spread information about global warming the way that weather information has been made conveniently available for the public.
“This revolution in climate knowledge is just beginning. In five to 10 years people will become just as familiar with using climate predictions as they are with weather forecasts.”
