AGRICULTURAL NEWS - The most pertinent question to ask about climate change should no longer be, “Is it happening?” Instead, we should be asking, “What do we do about it?”
This is according to Prof Bob Scholes of the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, who is rated in the top 1% of environmental scientists in the world.
He presented a talk titled ‘Evidence for Climate Change’ at a recent business breakfast hosted by the South African Institute of Agricultural Engineers.
Scholes, who has addressed many audiences about climate change, said he still received a lot of “denialist feedback”.
But he never encountered denialism from farmers, he said.
Farming will be one of the sectors most affected by climate change, and the impact it could have on food production, according to the data presented by Scholes, is chilling.
