Great WEATHER
The cause of global warming, generally attributed to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas, is not just rising temperatures but also the additional heat that accumulates in the environment and seas.
Warmer weather may hold more liquid vapor, and warmer waters mean greater absorption, resulting in more extreme downpours and storms.
Influences are wide-ranging, dangerous and extremely expensive, harmful home and destroying crops.
In northern Beijing, finance expert Xu Yici lamented that warmer-than-usual wind had affected the state’s classic winter game of ice skating.
” There’s no ice in the Summer Palace. Xu told AFP that he had planned to go snow dancing at the Summer Palace but that he hadn’t been able to do it this time.
During the last year’s storms, thousands of people were killed and hundreds of others were evacuated.
In May, a bridge in southern China collapsed after days of rain, killing 48 persons.
People of Guangzhou, a southern city, reported having a record-breaking summer with 240 days of ordinary temperatures above 22 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the record of 234 time set in 1994.
Sichuan, Chongqing, and the end approaches of the Yangtze River suffered from heat and drought in first fall.
But Xue Weiya, an IT worker in Beijing, told AFP he believed” the Taiwanese government is doing a very good job of protecting the environment, but I don’t think the weather… does have a big impact on us”.
Globally, 2024 saw dangerous flooding in Spain and Kenya, many violent storms in the United States and the Philippines, and extreme drought and fire across South America.
Normal catastrophe caused US$ 310 billion in financial losses in 2024, Zurich-based healthcare giant Swiss Re has said.
Under the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, earth leaders pledged to reduce global warming to effectively below 2.0 , degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels- and to 1.5 , degrees Fahrenheit if feasible.
The World Meteorological Organization reported in November that the indicate surface air temperature for the years 2024, January to September, was 1.54 degrees Fahrenheit above the pre-industrial common measured between 1850 and 1900.