Chapter 481 The Power of Carbon
Suez area.
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 not surrounded by endless desert and Gobi Desert, but by lush grasslands.
Dr. Lena, who has been to Cairo Airport several times, was very shocked by the changes before her: "The climate here has changed too much."
Another Western Roman scholar who also came here with the help of a temporary identity was also very surprised: "Isn't this a Nile agricultural area? Aren't they afraid of seawater entering the Nile?"
A sand kingdom scholar holding a telescope saw some situations through the types of herbaceous plants around him:
"It shouldn't be seawater. These herbs are not particularly salt-alkali tolerant. If the Homo sapiens company has used genetically modified technology to modify them, then I don't know."
Dr. Lena asked with concern: "Professor Iben, has the climate of the Sand Kingdom also changed?"
"Well, there have been some changes, especially along the Red Sea coast in the west. The air humidity has increased a lot. This year's rainfall has increased by about 20% compared to the same period in previous years." Professor Iben was not too worried.
Because the greening of the Sahara Desert and the increase in evaporation are good things for the Kingdom of Sand, which is already a desert area.
After all, their territory is full of deserts, and agricultural development is very troublesome.
If it weren't for the fear of the Homo sapiens company's trouble-making ability, the Kingdom of Sand would have introduced seawater crops long ago. They are extremely greedy for seawater crops.
The desert area within the Kingdom of Sand is vast. If seawater crops can be introduced, then food and agricultural products can be completely self-sufficient, and can even be exported.
However, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not made up its mind because it is afraid of the Homo sapiens company causing 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 to the second floor and found a seat to sit down.
The bus started slowly.
There are grasslands along the way, and occasionally you can see some artificial lakes and small rivers.
At this time, the permanent population of Cairo was not large, only about 3.74 million people. The tens of millions of people who had previously been relocated to other places by the Suez Branch through recruitment and job transfers.
Therefore, Cairo is no longer as crowded as it used to be, and at the same time, due to climate changes, it has become more livable.
After passing through a forest park covering an area of 5 square kilometers, the bus entered the city.
Towering broadcast towers, overhead light rails and overpasses that densely cover the city.
Overall, Dr. Lena's first impression of this new Cairo city 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...]
Dr. Lena, Robin Hood and others got off the car and saw a fountain waterfall with a height of 150 meters. In the middle of the square was an artificial lake with a radius of 200 meters.
The water vapor brought by the fountains and waterfalls makes the entire square very cool and humid.
Robin Hood looked at the introduction attached to the invitation, which showed the location of the forum—the Palace of the Sun.
The Sun Palace is not an office space, but a hotel similar to the Galaxy Hotel. This is also the usual style of the Homo sapiens 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 branch headquarters of Homo sapiens companies in various regions often do not build large buildings, but small and sophisticated buildings.
For example, the headquarters of the Suez Branch is a very low-key Water Lily Palace, with an area less than one-third of the Palace of the Sun and a height of only 20 meters.
The Sun Palace in front of you covers an area of 150,000 square meters and is 333 meters high.
Dr. Lena and others showed the invitation letter to the waiter at the door and were taken to the Bountiful Hall on the 24th floor.
There were already many people in the hall, and Dr. Lena soon saw many colleagues. She quickly turned to two scholars with whom she had a better relationship.
"Heath, Brian, long time no see."
The middle-aged white man wearing gold-rimmed glasses looked surprised when he saw Dr. Lena: "Lena, how did you get the visa?"
"I am an Abd citizen now." Lena spread her hands.
"That's it! Haha..." Another fat black man laughed and shook his head.
Dr. Lena put away her joking expression, and a trace of worry appeared on her face: "Brian, how is the climate over there in the Transvaal? Is there anything abnormal?"
The fat black man took a sip of espresso and shook his head: "We haven't found it yet, maybe it hasn't spread to southern Africa yet!"
Heath made some discoveries: "Moore has received a lot more rainfall in the past six months than in previous years."
Dr. Lena looked solemn: "You two, there is no way to make the Homo sapiens company stop transforming the Sahara Desert? Or delay the development?"
"This..." Brian frowned.
Although Fatty Hei looks stupid, he is actually very smart. He obviously knows that Homo Sapiens Company will not change the development schedule.
Heath took off his glasses and wiped them while advising: "Lena, don't be naive, the Homo sapiens company will not listen to us, and the global climate change will be more beneficial to them."
"But if this continues, I'm worried that it will cause warm outflow problems in the North Atlantic." Lena became increasingly worried.
Hearing this, Brian, the fat black man, narrowed his eyes slightly, but he secretly sneered in his heart: "With the North Atlantic warm outflow problem, you Europa will definitely be the first to be unlucky. The Homo sapiens company will not care about your life or death." ’
"North Atlantic Warm Current?" Heath was quite concerned about this issue. After all, the Moorish Republic was on the northwest coast of Africa.
The issue of warm outflow in the North Atlantic is not just a matter of the North Atlantic, because the global ocean currents are connected together, almost affecting the whole body.
He thought for a while, then shook his head helplessly: "Our personal power is too small, and it is really difficult to influence the decisions of the Homo sapiens company."
In fact, they don't know that as Homo sapiens companies gradually reduce the use of fossil fuels and increase the proportion of nuclear power, the intensity of global greenhouse gas emissions has dropped significantly.
The Homo sapiens company engages in large-scale cultivation of various seaweeds in the shallow seas of Southeast Asia and seawater crops in the Sahara Desert. At the same time, it also suppresses the deforestation and development of Southeast Asia and the Amazon rainforest.
This increases the scale of carbon sequestration in the ecosystem.
Therefore, instead of global warming, we now have to worry about whether global cooling will occur.
After all, judging from geological time, we are currently in an ice age. It is only the rapid industrialization of humans over the past two hundred years that has emitted a large amount of greenhouse gases that makes people think that we are not in an ice age.
If the warming and insulation effect of industrial greenhouse gases is excluded, the earth has actually been cooling in recent thousands of years.
Humanity should be grateful for the greenhouse gases produced by industrialization, otherwise the mid- and high-latitude areas would be colder and food production would be more difficult.
The behavior of Homo sapiens has unintentionally opened Pandora's box.
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