On 4th Feb, I attended Dr Liong’s lecture on climate change and modelling. Two major discussions were made in his lecture namely the issues on global warming and the responses. In the first discussion, Dr Liong pointed out that the excessive emission of greenhouse gases by human activities caused global warming. With global warming, environmental problems such as rising sea level and increasing temperature have arisen. In addition, evidences from Intergovernmental Panel on climate change which also called IPCC were presented in graph form to support the discussion on the first issue.
In the second discussion, Dr Liong briefly talked about the responses that were made to tackle the drastic climate change. Global Climate Model (GCM) is created by IPCC to predict the climate change and study on the impacts that were made. However, GCM cannot be used in smaller regions like South East Asia. As such, smaller GCM which is called Region Climate Model is used instead which also served the same purposes as GCM. Similar to the first discussion, visual aids were given during the lecture to reinforce on the idea of modelling.
Finally, Global warming is a pressing issue faced by the whole world and I felt that everyone can play their parts in saving the environment starting from today!
Source: "Brief Introduction To Climate Change & Modelling" by Dr Liong Shie-Yui and Climate Team
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