Extreme patterns speak of climate change - People's Daily Online
The past 12 months saw the most instances of extreme weather in a decade, China's meteorological authority said on Thursday.
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The number of extreme weather events in China has been increasing since 2000. These include extremely high and low temperatures, rainstorms and typhoons.
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"In the past 12 months, we experienced extreme weather more often than in any other year in the past decade. And global warming was largely to blame," said Chen Zhenlin, director of the emergency response, disaster mitigation and public services department under the CMA.
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From Jan 1 to 3, a cold wave will sweep across most regions in Northwest China and will move down to the southeast, bringing snowfalls to areas including the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the whole of North China as well as some areas in Southwest China and East China.
In some regions in north Xinjiang, the temperature is likely to drop by 6 to 10 degrees. And from Jan 1 to 10 it will remain 1 to 2 degrees lower in East China and 3 to 5 degrees lower in the northwest than in the same period in 2010.
"Although the winter temperature is turning cold, it is part of the alternating cycle of global heating and cooling, and the climate is indeed turning warm," said Zhou Bing, a CMA researcher.
2 comments:
Question for warmists: If China had the most extreme weather in an entire decade, and understands (because they are not stupid) that CO2 emissions are going to kill us all, why is China starting up a new coal fired plant every month for the next few years?
Why would China see the most extreme weather in a decade?
Maybe because weather -- not even a year's worth in a localized area-- is not climate. I could equally well point to another area that had NOT experienced extremes. Would that negate the belief that CO2 is going to kill us?
How about this question: If the globe is warming, and the poles are warming more than the rest, why have the last few years of Antarctica sea ice extent been the highest ever recorded?
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