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Smit, H. A. et al. An overview of the context and scope of wheat ( Triticum aestivum) research in South Africa from 1983 to 2008. South Afr. J. Plant Soil 27, 81–96 (2010). Asseng, S. et al. Hot spots of wheat yield decline with rising temperatures. Glob. Change Biol. 23, 2464–2472 (2017). Moise, A. F. & Hudson, D. A. Probabilistic predictions of climate change for Australia and southern Africa using the reliability ensemble average of IPCC CMIP3 model simulations. J. Geophys. Res. 113, D15 (2008). While Cape Town has narrowly avoided “day zero” this year all model results suggest that this trend will continue with a similar rate into the future. This prolonged rainfall deficit caused an acute water shortage in Cape Town leading to a possibility of “day zero” when the city pipes would run dry

Pilgrim, like any industrial facility, needs a special permit to release anything — even hot water — into the environment. Baudoin, M-A, C. Vogel, K. Nortje and M. Naik. (2017) Living with drought in South Africa: lessons learnt from the recent El Niño drought period. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 23: 128-137. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.05.005

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Africa is likely to be the continent hit hardest by climate change. The region is vulnerable to droughts, heat and floods and many countries have a low capacity for adaptation because of poor governance and poverty, limiting individual choices. Of course, there will be that impact as we move forward,” he said. “So part of the planning is also looking at things we can do to harden existing facilities that cannot be moved.”

These shifts have an impact on agriculture and tourism, but more importantly demonstrate that climate change is having an effect on the natural environment. These shifts in timing cannot continue indefinitely. Plants and animals have thresholds beyond which the stresses of climate change will result in at least local extinction. We use the standard risk-based multi-method approach to extreme event attribution employing station data, gridded observational dataset, as well as the CIMP5 archive, two coupled climate models and two atmosphere-land models to analyse whether and to what extent anthropogenic climate change altered the likelihood of the 2015-2017 Western Cape drought. Funk, C. et al. The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes. Sci. Data 2, 1–21 (2015).The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES — pronounced “nip-dees”) permit is supposed to be reviewed every five years to reflect advances in science and make sure a plant is using the best available technology. Those who study sea turtles say part of the reason that annual strandings are up in Massachusetts is that efforts to conserve and boost Kemp’s ridley populations have been successful. But the other part is that the Gulf of Maine is rapidly warming in the face of climate change and proving to be a more hospitable environment for turtles than it used to be, drawing them in larger numbers and resulting in them staying longer into the year. Fisher, M. et al. Drought tolerant maize for farmer adaptation to drought in sub-Saharan Africa: determinants of adoption in eastern and southern Africa. Climatic Change 133, 283–299 (2015). Challinor, A. J., Koehler, A.-K., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Whitfield, S. & Das, B. Current warming will reduce yields unless maize breeding and seed systems adapt immediately. Nat. Clim. Change 6, 954–958 (2016). STATSA. General Household Survey-Statistics South Africa. http://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=9922 (2016).

In 2011, an environmental consulting group, Normandeau Associates, analyzed Pilgrim’s impingement data from 1980 to 2010. They found that on average, 46,000 fish are trapped in the plant’s screens annually. But there’s a lot of variability from year to year: About 4,000 fish were impinged in 1980 while 302,000 — the highest recorded number available — were impinged in 2005.

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The third model, EC-Earth (Hazeleger et al, 2010), is a coupled atmosphere-ocean model run at a resolution of T159 (about 125km resolution). The version used is EC-Earth 2.3, which is based on the ECMWF seasonal forecasting model system 3. For EC-Earth, continuous simulations from 1860-2015 are used as per the CMIP5 historical setup until 2005 and the RCP8.5 scenario from 2006 (Taylor et al, 2012). The ensemble includes 16 members. Manuscript was submitted June 2018 to the Environmental Research Letters, an open access journal. References Severe weather is complicated. CAPE is just one ingredient in the severe weather recipe, and it’s unclear how other ingredients could respond to additional warming. Parents brought their toddlers and babies in strollers and carriers. Groups of friends and classmates chanted, sang and waved colorful handmade signs and flags decrying the “climate catastrophe,” many with drawings of the planet on fire.

In southern Africa, there has been an increase in the severity and frequency of heatwave events over recent decades. Interestingly, for a few locations, there has also been an increase in the frequency of extreme cold events. While this is not a feature of climate warming, it is induced by changes in regional climate patterns, such as the number of cold fronts which move over South Africa. Severe drought Rowhani, P., Lobell, D. B., Linderman, M. & Ramankutty, N. Climate variability and crop production in Tanzania. Agric. For. Meteorol. 151, 449–460 (2011). Barlow, K. M., Christy, B. P., O’Leary, G. J., Riffkin, P. A. & Nuttall, J. G. Simulating the impact of extreme heat and frost events on wheat crop production: a review. Field Crops Res. 171, 109–119 (2015). Many people still think of climate change as a phenomenon that we will only face in the distant future. Perhaps that’s partly because climate change projections about rising temperatures and extreme weather events are tied to future dates: 2030, 2050, or 2100, for instance. Extreme temperature events can be defined by the maximum temperature, the deviation from the norm, or the length of time of above-threshold temperatures. A number of indices have been developed by the World Meteorological Organisation to identify and quantify these extreme temperature events.The large-scale turtle stranding events that Massachusetts has seen in recent years have resulted in the rise of a large, complex network of rescuers working to save as many turtles as possible.