Don't let the World Meteorological Day Science only belongs to the child

BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) March 23 Is the World Meteorological Day (Lin Hui). Every year at this time, the meteorological Department will hold publicity activities, inviting people from all walks of life to visit the exhibition Hall of Meteorological Science and technology, to learn about weather and climate related knowledge.

22nd, the China Meteorological Administration Park held an annual open day activities, a total of more than 8,300 visitors to visit the park to study. Reporter at the scene noticed that the crowd came to the park mainly children, the real visitors to study the adults are not many. In fact, World Meteorological Day is not only a popular science day for children, but also a popular science day for adults.
The theme of this year's World Meteorological Day is "Climate Knowledge service Climate action", which is intended to alert the enormous challenges to human survival and development posed by current global climate change. Climate change is not only a subject of research by scientists, but has long been linked to everyone living on earth.
According to the China Meteorological Bureau Director Guoguang, since the middle of the last century, China's climate has changed dramatically, the average temperature every 10 years to rise 0.23 degrees Celsius, the warming range is almost twice times the global, high temperature, drought, rainstorm, typhoon and other extreme weather and climate events more and more intensified. Since this century, the direct economic losses caused by meteorological disasters amounted to about 1% of GDP, 8 times times the global average in the same period.
Climate change is mainly caused by human activities, so we also need to face up to the reality of human beings. However, many people feel that the danger of climate change is far from their own, unwilling to take any action. People who have experienced extreme weather events such as torrential rains, floods and other natural disasters have been more focused on climate change issues and are willing to take energy-saving actions in their daily lives, according to a previous study by British scientists.
The premise of empathy is understanding and experience. Therefore, it is necessary for us to adopt various kinds of popular science activities so that the whole society, especially adults, can recognize the knowledge of climate change scientifically, arouse the social awareness of climate change, and take active action to meet the challenge.
Hope in the near future, appear in all kinds of meteorological science activities on the scene not only have the children full of curiosity, as well as the majority of adult figure. The future of the earth will be better when the whole society acts together and contributes to the positive response to climate change.