Guardian: China faces an increase in weather disasters which will threaten crops and economic growth, the country’s most senior forecaster has warned. He Lifu, of the National Meteorological Centre, told the China Daily newspaper that events such as droughts, floods and storms had become more frequent and severe since the 1990s and the trend was likely to continue. “Extreme weather will be more frequent in the future due to the instability of the atmosphere, and global warming might be …