Pluses & Minuses of Climate Change

When it comes to climate change it's not all doom and gloom. A report from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing (publ. 1997) was more optimistic about the effects than UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report produced two years earlier (Climate Chane 2005).

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China has experienced global warming in the past and flourished in past historic warm periods.

Global warming will make China's climate slightly warmer and moister.

Global warming will bring benefits such as extended growing seasons and more moisture to north China as well as harmful effects such as more and stronger typhoons in south China and flooding of densely populated coastal areas.

It seems as if many farmers are making a plan, i.e. 75-year old boatsman Hu Zeshen is seeking a patent for his amphibious vehicle and plans to use it on vacations. [more]