The Effects of Climate Change in China

The effects of climate change are being felt in China. Drought had been interfering with the ability of China to produce food, which, in turn, impacted the ability of China to feed itself and export grain to other nations. This drove up local food prices and contributed to the rise in international food prices that is still occurring today. 

You would think that rain would be a good thing for these drought stricken Chinese provinces, right? You’d be wrong. Now, China is suffering from unseasonal torrential flooding that is causing damage to their economy and to their agriculture.

The climate ‘weirding’ predicted by Thomas Friedman appears to be occurring in China, where the extremes of weather are causing ecological instability. This, in turn, causes food prices to go up because less and less food is growing in the fields. This causes political and economic tensions as the poor and middle class have to spend more and more of their paychecks on food.

(Photo: A partially dried reservoir in Yingtan, Jiangxi province, China, 29 Oct 2009/stringer)

Besides these blatantly obvious effects of climate change, China is also having unseasonably warm winters. This causes frozen ponds and lakes to melt, which makes drinking water and water used to irrigate agricultural lands even more scarce. Once again, the complex feedback loops make it so that this increases the price of food, some slices being grown, which hurts many different aspects of the Chinese and global economy.

Much of the damage caused by climate change isn't even China's fault. Most of it comes from Western, industrialized nations. However, China has been building coal-fired power plants at a breakneck speed. This causes China to emit large amounts of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, which damages the health and the global climate.

Unfortunately, China is caught in a Catch-22. In order to fuel rapid economic growth, sacrifices have to be made in the ecological realm. That is why so many fossil fuel fired power plants have been being built. That is why so many Chinese are now beginning to buy cars and drive them. All of this causes economic growth and increases efficiency. This makes it very difficult for China to be able to effectively protect their environment without disrupting their economy. However, when we review the facts you can see that something has to be done:

• First, there was drought a few years back.
• This damaged agriculture.
• Now, there are floods.
• This is also damaging agriculture.
• Plus, now infrastructure like roads and buildings are being damaged.
• Frozen ponds and lakes are also melting, which is—you guessed it—damaging agriculture


Now, they are trying to get out of the sticky situation by investing in some green technologies such as improving energy efficiency in many different areas and by adopting some of the clean coal technologies used in developed nations. They still have a ways to go, this immense journey has at least been started with China's first steps.

Even amidst the terrible effects of global warming present in the cycling droughts and flooding that are crippling China's economy and ecology, there is something hopeful. People are noticing the effects of climate change and are beginning to adapt.


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Isaac writes for DLProg a Non Governmental Organisation who specialise in addressing the important gap in international thinking and policy about the critical role played by leaders, elites and coalitions in the politics of development. Read DLProg's developmental research papers or learn about the leadership development program at DLProg.org

Global Warming is Man Made or Natural

Nowadays one of the burning questions is Global Warming. It is a threat to our next generation to our future. Usually global warming is happening due to emission of CO2. Global Warming is creating an affect on our ecosystem. Also Global Warming directly playing a role to creating issues likes flood, drought, weather extremes and famine.

Regarding these issue scientist has divided into two groups. Some scientists say that global warming man made and some others say that global warming natural.

If we consider it is due to man made then we can find some reason below:

Global Warming Man Made Causes

1. Burning of fossil is one of the reasons as it produces a huge amount of carbon dioxide and release in the atmosphere. According to S. Fred Singer; Professor of Environment Science, University of Virginia, the production of carbon dioxide continuing from the industrial revolution. The amount of carbon dioxide emission has increased 35 times than 200 years ago.
2. Another man made reason is Population. As many people are here as many transportation are required and all this transportation use a huge amount of oil, octane, fuels, and some other energy. So all this energy source release huge amount of CO2 in air and destroy our environment, increase global warming.
3. People are cutting down trees that playing a vital role to increase global warming. We know that trees need CO2 to produce food and to grow up. It’s mean that trees take a huge amount of carbon dioxide emitted by human and it help environment to keep the balance of ecosystem.

Global Warming Natural Causes

1.     One of the natural factors that caused to accelerate global warming is Volcanic Eruptions. This kind of volcanic eruptions is rare but their impact is too big. Right the time of big volcanic eruptions can throw dust to air that caused release of CO2 and methane.

2.      Solar radiation also plays a role to change climate and global warming. Solar activity may cause small role to increase global warming.

3.      Forest Fires is another reason behind global warming that known as natural deforestation. Forest Fire is a natural way to clear up old growth and to welcome new ones. But this way doesn’t help environment as we know large trees can absorb large number of carbon dioxide but small trees can’t do that. Also forest fires create a large amount of smoke that spread to atmosphere. So, Forest fire is a reason behind global warming.

Also there have so many sources that playing direct role to global warming.

So now we can see both Man and Nature are doing such thing that accelerating global warming and climate change. We everyone knows that we can not control nature but we can stop man made elements that causing global warming.

Sources:

S. Fred Singer

Wiki Answer

A Cooler Climate

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