Summary of the article “Engineers and Climate”

Climate is one of the most concerns of people since the ancient time. Climate had an important effect on human communication and activities in the past. The forecasting of the climate often depended on religious activities and witchery in ancient society, but as time went on, the forecasting technology has become one of the important sciences. Then how to develop this technology and make the forecasting accurate seems another challenge to human beings. The forecasting has become important because it is not only the prediction of the weather that affects our timetable of activities but also the matter that can save lives. The forecasting of the droughts, floods and other nature disaster can save lots of people. Meteorology is related to physical background and we engineering students just need to have a good knowledge of physics. So engineers can make a contribution to this field as well. A hot issue nowadays is the destroying of the atmosphere caused by greenhouse gas which is mainly carbon dioxide. The greenhouse effect makes the temperature increase and the sea level increase, which threatens our life. How to deal with such problems are also the challenges that faced the engineers although they are more concerned to science, since many technologies and the knowledge that used are grasped by engineers. So engineers also need to care about the issues in other fields as to mostly benefit the humans.