After many years of speculation about climate change, it is a reality and something we cannot ignore any longer. It is wreaking havoc, as evidenced by the heatwave that has been experienced in parts of South Africa in the past month.
Hitherto, the scorching temperatures that we South Africans have been exposed to were fantasies of Middle Eastern countries, where cold winters are unheard of and temperatures can reach high extremes.
Predicted years ago by scientists, climate change has set in in earnest and we have little option but to adapt to the ever-changing weather patterns.
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