Climate change: floods and droughts will be greater dangers for China’s growth than earlier thought, UN scientists say
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“Extreme floods and droughts are the worst threats to China’s social and economic development in the context of climate change ,” Wang Wen, professor at Nanjing’s Hohai University and one of the lead authors of the IPCC report, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post.
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Human activities have raised global temperatures by 1.1 degrees since 1850, which may rise to 1.5 degrees by around 2040, based on the worldwide emission levels of five gases that create the so-called greenhouse effect. If the world fails to step up efforts or implement policies to remove carbon dioxide emissions, Earth’s temperature may rise by between 2.7 and 4.4 degrees by 2100, according to “best estimates.”
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The proportion of intense tropical cyclones and peak wind speeds of the most intense tropical cyclones are projected to increase at the global scale with increasing global warming, the IPCC experts predicted with “high confidence”
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