100-year drought - fact or fiction?
Members of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been meeting in Montreal to discuss the implications that global warming is no longer a matter of speculation, but of fact. Computer models of current rainfall and temperature of the southern African region have been matched to models of climate change. While the forecasts show that some years may have cooler periods with rainfall, the overall trend is for the region to become drier and hotter. This trend has led scientists to predict that the region could be in for a drought lasting up to 100 years. A report by the Panel has concluded that worldwide increases in temperature can be partly blamed on industrial activity which leads to the so-called greenhouse effect. This rise in temperature is already leading to a further spread of tropical diseases such as dengue fever, malaria and yellow fever. The report also warns that havests in southern Africa may fall by about a fifth.
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| Language: | English |
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1996
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47250 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta61e/ |
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