In
a recent statement, Mr. Ren Fumin, chief instructor of the China
Meteorological Administration, cited climate change as the reason for
such extreme weather this year across the country, saying that the
relentless rainstorms and hot temperatures were due to increased heat
and its abnormal circulation over the northern hemisphere.
Other
scientists, such as Dr. Zong Yongqiang of the University of Hong Kong,
agree that the region’s overall temperature rise is part of human-caused
global warming.
Zong Yongqiang - Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong (M):
In the last few thousand years, the global climate actually has been
cooling, so temperature has been falling, particularly on the northern
hemisphere, China or East Asia included.
But if you look at the
climate record in the last 200 years, this falling trend actually has
been reversed. So in the last 200 years, we saw the temperature was
rising. So that basically changed the long-term climate trajectory,
which is very, very strong evidence for the sort of argument that recent
climate warming is due to human-made impact.
VOICE: China has
recorded nearly two full days of additional hot weather than previous
years on average, while satellite-monitoring data on July 25 showed that
the surface temperature in some regions of Inner Mongolia, Gansu,
Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces had reached a sweltering 45 degrees
Celsius.
Moreover, since March, storms and floods across 28
provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have claimed nearly
1,000 lives with hundreds of people still missing.
According to
the most recent information released by the Office of State Flood
Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, the total economic loss is
estimated at US$27 billion.
Dr. Zong Yongqiang (M):
The climate warming in the last 10, 20 years has significantly changed
the weather patterns in China. We’ve seen more and more warm winters. We
also recorded quite a lot of really hot summers, and summer is much
warmer. This is noticeable I think, to most Chinese people in the last
20 years. Such changes have caused lots of problems, including increased
snowfall in the last two years.
VOICE: We thank Mr. Ren Fumin
and Dr. Zong Yongqiang for sharing their expert knowledge on the current
effects of global warming. With sorrow for the suffering caused by such
extreme weather patterns, we pray that citizens everywhere will join
hands to protect our planet from further calamities through our caring
lifestyle choices.
During an October 2009 videoconference in
Indonesia, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed as on many previous
occasions the urgency of global warming as well the fastest way to
reverse its life-threatening impacts.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Now, according to expert scientists, the atmospheric temperatures are
rising so steeply that we do not have much time left to change. And that
is just what they have predicted up to date.
The effects of
climate change can be seen in so many ways, with increased flooding,
droughts, fires and even earthquakes everywhere in the world. How do we
stop these alarming changes?
The greenhouse gases released from
the animals, from their waste, agricultural runoff, and the activities
related to these massive operations have been identified as the primary,
the number one cause of global warming.
We have to halt the
meat consumption and the livestock raising Instead, we should choose to
buy organic vegetable and fruit products to save our lives and those of
our families, save the animals and the planet.
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