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Climate change will make more politicians into environmentalists
Posted by NewsDay: None Given on December 8th, 2014
Newsday: By the time the 2016 presidential election formally gets underway, pundits are likely to debate the climate change gap in the same breath as they argue over the gender gap.
Voters already have telegraphed elected officials that they need to take global warming seriously, because they do. Or face the consequences at the ballot booth if they don't.
Voters, by 57 to 41 percent, believe global warming is serious. Think of this 16-point difference on whether global warming is a major problem as...
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Posted by NewsDay: None Given on May 26th, 2014
NewsDay: The climate change debate comes full circle for Africa today as African Climate ministers descend in Harare for a crucial meeting occasioned by severe weather and extreme climate events which are exacerbating multiple stresses such as food insecurity and spread of diseases on the continent.
In 2012 alone, an estimated 37,3 million Africans were negatively affected by hydro-meteorological hazards; a 43,3% increase in annual average over the last decade.
So the meeting under the banner of African...
Climate change to take its toll on Zim
Posted by NewsDay: None Given on April 13th, 2013
NewsDay: Nhekairo said this yesterday to legislators who were attending a Southern African Development Community parliamentarians’ climate change workshop in Harare. “Several climate studies suggest that water resources in the country are expected to dwindle and the evergreen forests of the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe can be reduced to seasonal forests,” said Nhekairo. “Southern Zimbabwe may result (sic) in desert conditions if climate change continues at current rates, and according to crop forecasts...