The "Rainbow Warrior" fast through Hongkong Lamma island. On the island, a windmill stands alone. "This is the only one power generation windmill in Hongkong," Zhang Yunqi pointed to his hand, "although there are a lot of wind energy in Hongkong."
Zhang Yunqi is a green peace officer in Hongkong, in October 18th, she and the "Rainbow Warrior" on a dozen crew together, traveling in the waters of Hongkong. The ship had Lamma Island soon, Captain DanielRizzotti ordered several crew immediately raised the sails. 4 large sails full of wind, the coerced green "warriors of the rainbow", sped away.
"Rainbow Warrior" is on a ten week "Asia clean energy Tour", Hongkong is the starting point. Greenpeace hopes to take this trip to raise public concern about global warming, advocate the use of clean wind power.
The organization China project director Lu Sicheng said, according to the government in 2002 made the assessment report, Hongkong's wind enough to provide power to the 2 million people, that Hongkong has the conditions for the development of wind power generation. And neighboring Guangdong Province, there is a great potential for wind energy utilization.
The earth "fever" caused climate disaster
"Climate change is already getting enough scientific evidence to prove that it is time for countries to act immediately." In June 7, 2005, a joint statement issued by the G8 summit of National Academy of Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences and 10 other countries, in the "global climate change" in the statement, the scientists said: "now there is strong evidence that global warming is happening. Direct indicators include rising surface temperatures and rising sea surface temperatures, other phenomena also include global sea level elevation, glacier degradation, and other physical and ecosystem changes. The warming trend of recent decades is likely to be the result of human activities. Global warming has changed the earth's climate."
The World Meteorological Organization said that today's earth is experiencing the hottest period in 2000, since the industrial revolution, the global temperature increased by 0.85 degrees celsius. 1990s is the hottest 10 years in history. 9 of the hottest 10 years since the temperature record appeared in 1995. The hottest 5 years in history are 1998200120022003 and 2004. The Intergovernmental Panel on climate change says that if the current trend continues, by the end of this century, global temperatures will reach the highest point in the past 2 million years.
The Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) is jointly sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme of the authority of the global organization, the assessment report issued by more than 2500 scientists involved in writing. The latest report says climate change is not only a threat to most of the natural ecosystems, but also the impact of human life.
According to the "2004 Chinese initial national communication on climate change", China government submitted a report to the United Nations, which pointed out: Chinese surface temperature in 2030 may rise by 1.5 to 2.8 DEG C, to 2050 increased by 2.3 to 3.3 DEG C, to 2100 rose 3.9 to 6 DEG C.
If temperatures rise by 3 degrees Celsius, glaciers in Western China will be reduced by 27.2% by 2050. This means that the ice and snow reserves in the high mountain area of Western China will be greatly reduced, and the seasonal recharge and regulation of the glacier to the river runoff will be severely weakened.
Due to climate change and extreme weather, China's total agricultural output will fall by 10% from 2030 to 2050, and the three major food crops, rice, rice and maize, will cut production.
At present, people feel most directly in life are floods, storms and droughts. In September 2005, "science" magazine paper pointed out that climate change and the recent frequent high-intensity hurricanes also have a relationship, because climate change will lead to rising sea surface temperature.