Chapter 481 The Power of Carbon
Suez region.
Cairo city.
Dr. Lena, who had just got off the plane, felt very cool. It didn't feel like a subtropical desert climate at all, but rather like a subtropical monsoon climate.
Walking out of the airport, she stood next to the bus stop.
Looking around, the airport is surrounded not by endless desert or Gobi, but by lush grassland.
Dr. Lena, who has been to Cairo Airport several times, was shocked by the changes she saw: "The climate change here is huge."
Another Western Roman scholar who also came here with a temporary identity was also very surprised: "Isn't this the agricultural area of the Nile River? Aren't they afraid that seawater will flood into the Nile River?"
A scholar from the Kingdom of Sand, holding a telescope, saw some information from the types of surrounding herbs:
"It's probably not seawater. These herbs are not particularly salt-tolerant. If the Homo Sapiens Company used genetic modification technology to modify them, then I'm not sure."
Dr. Lena asked with concern: "Professor Iben, has the climate in the Saudi Kingdom also changed?"
"Well, there have been some changes, especially along the western Red Sea coast. The humidity has increased a lot, and the rainfall this year has increased by about 20% over the same period in previous years." Professor Iben was not too worried.
The greening of the Sahara Desert and the increase in evaporation are good things for the Sandy Kingdom, which is originally a desert area.
After all, their territory is full of desert, and agricultural development is very difficult.
If the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had not been afraid of the Homo sapiens company's ability to cause trouble, it would have introduced marine crops long ago. They are extremely envious of marine crops.
The Saudi Kingdom has a vast area of desert. If seawater crops can be introduced, the country can be completely self-sufficient in food and agricultural products, and can even export them.
However, the Saudi Kingdom has not made up its mind because it is afraid that the Homo Sapiens company will cause trouble.
Foreign scholars at the bus station are still discussing.
A double-decker bus arrived at the station.
"The car is here." Robin Hood reminded.
A group of people lined up to get on the bus.
Dr. Lena and Robin Hood went up to the second floor and sat down in a random seat.
The bus started slowly.
There are grasslands along the way, and occasionally you can see some artificial lakes and small rivers.
At that time, the permanent population of Cairo was not large, only about 3.74 million. The tens of millions of people had been relocated to other places by the Suez branch through recruitment and job transfer.
Therefore, Cairo is no longer as crowded as before, and the change in climate has made it more suitable for living.
After passing a 5-square-kilometer forest park, the bus entered the urban area.
The towering radio towers and the densely populated elevated light rails and overpasses in the city.
Overall, Dr. Lena's first impression of this new city of Cairo was that it was spacious, clean and grand.
After a while, the bus's voice announcement system issued a prompt:
[Dear passengers, we have arrived at Waterfall Square Station...].
When Dr. Lena, Robin Hood and others got off the car, they saw a 150-meter-high fountain waterfall and an artificial lake with a radius of 200 meters in the middle of the square.
The water vapor brought by the fountains and waterfalls makes the entire square very cool and moist.
Robin Hood flipped through the attached description of the invitation letter, which listed the venue of the forum - the Sun Palace.
The Sun Palace is not an office space, but a hotel similar to the Galaxy Hotel. This is also the usual style of the Zhiren Company, that is, the practicality and commerciality of large buildings must be well grasped.
The company has no idea of building a large palace for display. Such large buildings are usually hotels and restaurants, and the halls can be rented out for temporary use for various meetings and celebrations.
The headquarters of the branches of the Sapiens Company in various regions often do not build large buildings, but rather small and exquisite buildings.
For example, the headquarters of the Suez branch is a very low-key Water Lily Palace, which is less than one-third of the Sun Palace in area and only 20 meters high.
The Sun Palace in front of us covers an area of 150,000 square meters and is 333 meters high.
Dr. Lena and others showed their invitation to the waiter at the door and were taken to the Hall of Abundance on the 24th floor.
There were already quite a few people in the hall , and Dr. Lena soon saw many of her colleagues. She quickly turned to two scholars with whom she had a good relationship.
"Heath, Brian, long time no see."
The middle-aged white man with gold-rimmed glasses looked surprised when he saw Dr. Lena: "Lena, how did you get a visa?"
"I am now a citizen of Abd." Lena spread her hands.
"So that's it! Haha..." Another fat black man laughed and shook his head.
Dr. Lena put away her joking smile and showed a trace of worry on her face: "Brian, how is the climate in Transvaal? Is there anything abnormal?"
The fat black man took a sip of espresso and shook his head: "Nothing has been found yet. Maybe it hasn't spread to southern Africa yet!"
Heath made some discoveries: "Moore has had a lot more rainfall in the past six months than in previous years."
Dr. Lena looked serious: "You two, is there no way to stop the Sapiens Company from transforming the Sahara Desert? Or delay development?"
"This..." Brian frowned.
Don't be fooled by the fat black man's silly look, he is actually very smart. He obviously knows that Sapiens will not change the development schedule.
Heath took off his glasses, wiped them, and advised, "Lena, don't be naive. Sapiens will not listen to us, and the sudden change in global climate will be more beneficial to them."
"But if we continue like this, I'm worried it will cause problems with the North Atlantic Current." Lena became more and more worried.
Hearing this, the fat black man Brian narrowed his eyes slightly, but he secretly sneered in his heart: "If there is a problem with the North Atlantic Warm Current, you Europa will definitely be the first to suffer. The Sapiens Company will not care about your life or death."
"The North Atlantic Current?" Heath was quite concerned about this issue. After all, the Moorish Republic was located on the northwest coast of Africa.
The problem with the North Atlantic Current is not just a North Atlantic problem, because the world's ocean currents are connected, and one move can affect the entire body.
He thought for a while, then shook his head helplessly: "Our individual power is too small. It is too difficult to influence the decision of the Sapiens company."
In fact, they don’t know that as Homo sapiens gradually reduced the use of fossil fuels and increased the proportion of nuclear power, the global greenhouse gas emission intensity has dropped significantly.
Homo sapiens is engaged in large-scale cultivation of various seaweeds in the shallow waters of Southeast Asia and in marine crops in the Sahara Desert. It is also suppressing the deforestation and development of the Southeast Asian and Amazon rainforests.
This increases the scale of carbon sequestration in the ecosystem.
Therefore, the earth is not experiencing global warming now, but we should worry about whether it will experience global cooling.
After all, from a geological perspective, we are now in an ice age. It is only because of the rapid industrialization of mankind in the past two hundred years, which has emitted a large amount of greenhouse gases, that people think we are not in the ice age.
If we exclude the warming and insulating effects of industrial greenhouse gases, the Earth has actually been cooling over the past few thousand years.
Human beings should be grateful for the greenhouse gases produced by industrialization, otherwise the mid- and high-latitude regions would be even colder and food production would be more difficult.
The actions of Sapiens have inadvertently opened Pandora's box.
