1524 HKSAR Name of the Day

Marz Chan Tsz-lok, 17-year-old queuing up at City Hall for tickets for the chance to meet China's Olympic gold medal athletes (from London 2012 Olympic Games), Hong Kong

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1523 HKSAR Name of the Day

Randoll Cheung Hok-man, manager, Pink Pussy Cat, a chain of seven shops offering erotic products in Hong Kong (apparently signing up 2,000 new members every month on average; August 2012)

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1522 HKSAR Name of the Day

Janson Lau Ka-ki, 18, student who learned that his combined science qualification, one of his seven subjects in Hong Kong's Diploma of Secondary Education, would not be accepted by the University of East Anglia

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1521 HKSAR Name of the Day

Inti Fu Tai-fan, runs marathons, Hong Kong. She has glaucoma and has a guide dog called Nana.

 Inti Fu Tai-fun and Tsang Kin-ping with guide dogs Nana and Deanna

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1520 HKSAR Name of the Day

Adason Lo Lik-wai, Canto-pop singer, Hong Kong

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1519 HKSAR Name of the Day

Ciwi Lam Sze-man, local model, Hong Kong

quote from SCMP: The event [launch of Adidas' new line of yoga clothing in May 2012] got a bit off track when Lam was asked why she doesn't wear bikinis. Apparently her fear of the revealing bathing suit started in secondary school, when the boys would pull on her straps. Now when she swims she prefers to focus on her health. "I want to increase my lung capacity!" An important goal for a budding singer.

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1518 HKSAR Name of the Day

Elanne Kwong Yeuk-lam, local singer, Hong Kong

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1517 HKSAR Name of the Day

Keilem Ng (Ms), 31, a volunteer from green group Eco Marine (helping with plastic pellets dumped onto Hong Kong beaches)

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1516 HKSAR Name of the Day

Cado Lee, 20-year-old scrumhalf (May 2012), Hong Kong Rugby Football Union.

Scrumhalf Cado Lee and winger Salom Yiu Kam-shing, together with substitute prop Alex Ng Wai-shing, will present the local face of rugby as Mong Kok Stadium hosts an international for the first time in 13 years (26 May 2012)

Cado Lee

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1515 HKSAR Name of the Day

Pedith Chan, assistant professor of cultural and heritage management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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1514 HKSAR Name of the Day

Ricci Chang Lik-chee (Mr), director, Mind Pro Psychological Medicine Centre, Hong Kong

see News article

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Climate Sceptic Wyss Yim

Good letter from Professor Johnny Chan ... putting Professor Wyss Yim in his place

Global warming sceptics must stop cherry-picking data

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 04 February, 2015, 5:04pm

Johnny Chan

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Urbanisation enhances warming in the cities but the increase in temperature is global and not confined to the cities. Photo: TNS

Professor Wyss Yim's letter published on January 29 ("Hottest year? Not in Hong Kong") argued that urbanisation is the culprit of all the warming that is observed, and that the global temperature actually decreased during the period from 1998 to 2014.

This is typical of climate sceptics who often cherry-pick data to argue that the globe is not warming.
If urbanisation were the only reason for the observed warming, why has the Arctic sea ice shrunk by about a third since 1980? Why have significant amounts of ice melted in many of the glaciers? Why has the ocean temperature continued to increase? In these places, very few people live, and surely no urbanisation exists.

Yes, urbanisation enhances warming in the cities but the increase in temperature is global and not confined to the cities. According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the weather authority within the United Nations, the average temperature over land and ocean in 2014 was 0.57 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average.

Note that the average over land includes all temperature records and not only those in the cities. Just because the temperature in Hong Kong is not the hottest does not imply global warming is not occurring!

As to the "pause" in the warming, the climate system is very complex and the global temperature will always be affected by many factors that occur on relatively short time scales.

Yes, there was short-term downward trend in temperature during the period from 1998 to 2013, but this also happened in the 1970s. And, yet, after the brief downturn, the temperature rose again.
What we are talking about here is a long-term trend and not a short-term one. While there might be periods during which the global temperature decreases, it is still increasing if you examine the record for a longer period of time.

I think the climate sceptics should not cherry-pick data to argue that human-induced global warming is not occurring. There is overwhelming evidence that their argument is invalid.

If we continue to say that human activity has nothing to do with the observed increase in temperature, and therefore nothing needs to be done to reduce our greenhouse emissions, our earth as we know it will be doomed.

Of course, most of us reading this letter will be dead by the time this happens, but is it fair to do this to our future generations?

Johnny Chan, dean and chair professor of atmospheric science, City University of Hong Kong

 

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Global warming sceptics should stop cherry-picking data

1513 HKSAR Name of the Day

Johnson Yeung Ching-yin, president (2012), Students' Union, Chinese University of Hong Kong

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1512 HKSAR Name of the Day

Ban Chung Wing-sze (Miss), who works in publishing and has been inspired by the efforts of Benson Tsang

the meaning of Ban is "field of beans"

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1511 HKSAR Name of the Day

Nise Sou Lai-sim (Miss), who does community development work in a church and has been inspired by the efforts of Benson Tsang

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