China's top climate scientist has issued a grave warning about climate change in a report stating that rising temperatures will have huge consequences and massive impact on the nation itself, according to local state media.

Zheng Guoguang, chief of China's Meteorological Administration, said global climate change will significantly reduce crop produce and can lead to ecological degradation, creating unstable river flows.

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Zheng adds that as the planet is warming, the risks of changes in climate and disasters in China are becoming more grave.

To date, China is producing the most carbon dioxide emissions on the planet. CO2 is one of the main causes of climate change and Beijing predicts its CO2 emissions will peak at around 2030.

Zheng also adds that increasing temperatures in China over the last 100 years has been more extreme compared to global averages. He also stated that climate change is fast becoming as a serious threat to several Chinese mega infrastructure project.

Among these threatened projects are the Three Gorges Dam; a railway that connects northwestern China all the way to Tibet and a huge project that will  divert water from the south to the drier northern regions.

Zheng is now urging China to take a low carbon development path. He also announced to local state media Xinhua that wind and solar energy alternatives for China are rather limited.

China and the U.S. are the biggest sources of carbon emissions in the world. Combined, both superpowers produce 45 percent of the Earth's carbon dioxide. Later this year, the two countries will sign a global deal at a Paris climate change summit to reduce emissions after 2020.

China's ruling Communist Party has always placed emphasis on economic growth for decades, a decision that has led to massive energy demand, especially for polluting coal. Every year from 2000 to 2010, coal use in China increased by nine percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Beijing has already experienced public anger because of its unrelenting smog. China's effort to prevent widespread local pollution by replacing coal with natural gas was criticized by environmental groups that said the move will lead to greater carbon emissions.

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