Guangdong faces warming threat
By Zhan Lisheng | China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-30 07:37
GUANGZHOU: The average temperature in Guangdong could rise by 5.7 C from 2011 to 2100 unless it turns to greener methods to sustain its economic growth, experts have warned.
The temperature will rise by 1 C between 2011 and 2040, by 1.9 C between 2041 and 2070, and by 2.8 C between 2071 and 2100, Lin Xianmin, deputy director of the provincial meteorological administration, said at a forum on Tuesday.
The warming will be faster than in the past five decades, when the average temperature climbed 1.05 C, he said. The average temperature in Guangdong last year was 22.5 C.
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