Bulletin No. 1, 2016

6 Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2016 The most common hints include the melting of ice-sheets, retreating glaciers and low-lying islands buried under water due to increase in sea levels. But other hints do not escape the attention of scholars from CUHK’s Earth System Science Programme, whose efforts have covered the thawing of permafrost in the Arctic and Tibetan Plateau; the combined effects of air pollution and climate change on food production, as well as how intensified precipitation is affected by rapid urbanization in the Pearl River Delta. more likely for 70mm/hr rain rate for AH=500W/m^2 compared to the case AH=0 wheat production (projected max. reduction) in South Asia where ozone pollution is projected to worsen maize production (projected max. reduction) in US, Europe and South America due to extreme temperature projected global temperature increase due to gradual top-down thawing of permafrost by 2100 Nature Drops Many Hints o C + % % TIMES