Contact Guy Midgley at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) for information on what the research and scientific community in South Africa is doing in the field of climate change. Guy can also provide information on the activities of the SASCGC (South African Scientific Committee on Global Change).
midgley@sanbi.org
NBI
Climate Change Research Group
The concentration of C02 in the atmosphere has increased more than 30% since the dawn of the industrial revolution and is now higher than it has been in 430 000 years Climate Change could put 25% of all land animals and plants on a path to extinction over the next 50 yearsWith global warming, water availability is expected to decrease. 5 billion people are expected to be loving in water stressed areas by 2050 1998 was the hottest year (globally) on record - followed by 2002, 2003 and 2004 Alaska's glaciers have melted more in the last 100 years than at any time in the past 10 centuries
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