Beijing, November 25 – China’s climate will continue to warm if the atmospheric density of carbon dioxide remains at the current level or increases in the coming 50 years, a leading Chinese scientist has warned.
The average temperature in China is expected to increase by 1.7 degrees Celsius around 2030 and by 2.2 degrees by 2050, the Director of the China Meteorological Administration, Qin Dahe, said here yesterday at a seminar on climate change and the ecological environment.
If the carbon dioxide density doubles, the temperature will be up by 2.9 degrees in 50 years.
By 2030, the temperature in the north-western region is likely to increase by 1.9 to 2.3 degrees, and that in the south-western region will be up around 1.8 degrees.
The temperature on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau will increase by 2.6 degrees.
Qin said precipitation in China’s eastern and southern coastal areas will increase by large margins in the coming years, while the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river, north China and the southern part of northeast China will have less rainfall than in the past.
Statistics show that China’s average temperature increased by some 0.5 degrees in the past century, slightly less than the global average of 0.6 degrees.
Temperatures in northwest, north and northeast China have increased the most.
