The average temperature in Shanghai has gone up 1.4 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years and the trend will continue in future.
Tang Xu, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau director, predicted if such a situation of climatic warming went unchecked, there would be a higher possibility for Shanghai to be hit head-on by more extreme weather disasters. These included strong typhoons, tornados, prolonged drought and heat waves.
He promised the bureau would tighten its efforts to analyze factors leading to climatic changes and in forecasting weather changes to cope with and be prepared for such changes.
While stepping up their efforts to analyze the impact and risk of weather changes and draft standards for countermeasures, meteorological researchers were told to focus their research on the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on climate changes in addition to regional climate changes from the development of satellite towns.
It was also important to adjust the industrial mix, vigorously develop clean energy and reduce emissions of greenhouse gas, Tang said.
He disclosed the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a specialized organization of the United Nations, had decided to carry out a project in Shanghai to showcase its establishment of a multiple disaster warning system.
Experience gained from the experiment would be expanded to other international cities.
In 2007, Shanghai, host of the 2010 World Expo, experienced its hottest year since the city began recording the weather in 1873. Year-round, it had an average temperature of 18.4 Celsius degrees, said local meteorologists.
The year's average temperature was 0.1 degree higher than that of 2006, according to Shen Yu, a bureau senior engineer.
Source: Xinhua
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