Heat waves the new normal

01 February 2016 - 02:19
By Tanya Farber

As another heat wave sets in climatologists have warned that record-breaking temperatures are a foretaste of the new normal. Climate change expert Bob Scholes, of Wits University, said the increase in temperatures would be "over and above el-Niño events"."High temperatures will persist into the middle of the century regardless of what we do.

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