BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. CLIMATE IMPACTS ON WHEAT YIELDS, PRICES A China-led s
also seeing some inundation. cape town, south africa, my former home, this is the sea point promenade. very familiar with this area. and you can see what a 3-degree celsius warming world would look like for that particular part of south africa. paula, striking images and it really tells a story here of the urgency that needs to be done here. striking for sure, derek. and i want you i want to thank you for bringing that research to our attention. we ll see you a little later. thank you. now, if you re a downtown abbey fan, think about this, cnn s richard quest is in the house, literally, in the house, in the castle. the real-life owners of the show s famous estate tell him how they kept it all going through covid. feel the power. beat the symptoms fast.
uk. i wouldn t read too much into the british rhetoric on brexit at the british rhetoric on brexit at the summit. he says we have to be open and flexible and pragmatic, but that must be within the parameters of the existing protocol. but he warns that unilateral actions from the uk, extending the exemptions for cold meats, which runs out at the end of this month, if the uk were to do that unilaterally, that would be really problematic. one to watch over the next week. g7 leaders have issued a series of statements to cut their carbon emissions. david it is good to have you with us. the top line that i m seeing is that the commit to greenhouse to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and keeping the 1.5 celsius warming within reach
nearest hill and shout. the good side of it is it s never too late to start doing better, but we re in a really bad place. what can we do what needs to happen now in order to push off the effects of climate change? in order to change what looks like the future will be, what it looks like the future will be? i think the other piece of good news on climate, i think of it as the easiest hard problem. there are a lot of big problems in the world, poverty, disease, war. climate change, amongst those, is the most easily solvable. we have the technology that we need. we know what do. the problem is we have a time limit because basically as we pollute the atmosphere, the effects of that pollution today are going to last for hundreds and hundreds of years. let s put up some of the pictures that this report has or that your organization has provided us with. if we re working with two degrees warming, celsius warming in hundreds of years wall street by the bull will still look like
this. if it s more than 2 degrees of warming in hundreds of years it will look like it is on the left, under water. look at miami beach sea level, same thing. 2 degrees warming it s not great but it s not as bad as 4 degrees warming. and washington, this is the pentagon, potentially parts of it under water with $4 celsius warming and not as bad with 2 degrees celsius warm. this will happen years from now, but this will be locked in. all the images show the choices we have right now in terms of the legacy we leave to our descendents. what are the choices we need to make right now? the transition say clean energy economy and to get our carbon emissions to zero within a few decades. and then see if we can engineer our ways to removing carbon from the atmosphere after that. but it s more than our energy system, it s also