Why winter this year is very warm in china? what about your country?

China
November 16, 2006 1:49am CST
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4 responses
16 Nov 06
the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. The temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface is warmed through a natural process called the greenhouse effect. Visible, shortwave light comes from the sun to the earth, passing unimpeded through a blanket of thermal, or greenhouse, gases composed largely of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Infrared radiation reflects off the planet's surface toward space but does not easily pass through the thermal blanket. Some of it is trapped and reflected downward, keeping the planet at an average temperature suitable to life, about 60°F (16°C). Growth in industry, agriculture, and transportation since the Industrial Revolution has produced additional quantities of the natural greenhouse gases plus chlorofluorocarbons and other gases, augmenting the thermal blanket. It is generally accepted that this increase in the quantity of greenhouse gases is trapping more heat and increasing global temperatures, making a process that has been beneficial to life potentially disruptive and harmful. During the past century, the atmospheric temperature has risen 1.1°F (0.6°C), and sea level has risen several inches. Some projected, longer-term results of global warming include melting of polar ice, with a resulting rise in sea level and coastal flooding; disruption of drinking water supplies dependent on snow melts; profound changes in agriculture due to climate change; extinction of species as ecological niches disappear; more frequent tropical storms; and an increased incidence of tropical diseases. Among factors that may be contributing to global warming are the burning of coal and petroleum products (sources of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone); deforestation, which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; methane gas released in animal waste; and increased cattle production, which contributes to deforestation, methane production, and use of fossil fuels.
• China
16 Nov 06
ok good response thank you
• India
30 Nov 06
India also is suffering... like the rest of the world. We didn't get good rains the year before and we got floods this year. It is still not cooling down in Winter... Wonder if anything will ever be normal...
@epizzahut (2078)
• China
16 Nov 06
I think earth has got flu and has a fever.
• China
30 Nov 06
yes~ many friends have ill!
• China
16 Nov 06
I think it's not only the problem of china, but the problem of the world, the global warming is coming. unfortunately, nobody seems care it, the car has very good sales in china, I consider the car pollution is the most important factor to make it so warm. human would destroy themselves, let's wait and see.
@wm69love88 (3466)
• China
16 Nov 06
snow - snow
It is a little cold in my hometown,but don't snow.i hope snow.