Johan van den Berg -Independent Agricultural Meteorologist (M.Sc Agric, Agricultural Meteorology, UFS) -Important Issues:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a special report outlining what would need to be done to keep the world from warming up by more than 1.5°C.

A key feature of climate change is that it doesn’t pose one single risk. Rather, it presents multiple, interacting risks that can compound and cascade. Importantly, responses to climate change can also affect risk.

Summary Wetter conditions return to the summer rainfall region Following a mostly dry April, conditions are expected to return to a wetter pattern into early May.

Continuing the balmy trend to 2021, the month of March ended as the world’s eighth-warmest March in 142 years of record-keeping.

On its Climate Science Information Centre, extended in February to South Africa, Facebook states that “at least 97% of published scientists agree that global warming is real and caused by humans”.