How did I get here?

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This question comes up and again for quite a number of us. I am a mechanical science technician, a computer science engineer (with a tendency for robotics), turned into an industrial engineering PhD, working with agricultural systems and now climate, in Africa. You can only imagine how many times I wondered: “How did I get… Read more »

State of Collaboration Address

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Honourable CSAGers, Good evening, sanibonani, molweni, dumelang, riperile, ndimadekwana, goeienaand. The year 2014 marked the publication of the Fifth Assessment report (AR5) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In keeping with the previous format, the report has been grouped into three working groups: Working Group I: the Physical Science Basis; Working Group II:… Read more »

The Death of an Environmentalist?!

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  Back in the days I was known among my group of friends as the environmentalist, the green police. Without me even saying anything friends would apologise that they had not yet had their recycling set up properly, or that they chose to drive to the gym when they could have walked. In those days… Read more »

Dragon fire reigns

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  The prestigious CSAG Joe Blogs Award for 2014 was announced this morning to celebrate another successful year of intriguing, captivating and compelling blog posts. Having been established in 2013 by our colleague Joseph Daron its was an exciting morning for all at CSAG to hear who would hold the title for the second year… Read more »

The fate of Homo Aquaticus

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Life has not been very fair to mermaids. And why would it be? Too many changes have occurred in such a short lapse of time. Since the melting of Greenland in the 36th century, the planet has reversed back to the most dreadful global cooling event. And our 2 new baby oceans Agassean and Green are… Read more »

Green Talents 2014 Award-Well done Nkulumo Zinyengere

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The 25 Green Talents 2014 have been selected based on their original ideas and excellent research in the field of sustainable development.   Out of more than 800 applications from over 100 countries, a high ranking jury of experts selected 25 up-and-coming scientists one of whom is UCT / CSAG’s PhD student Nkulumo Zinyengere for his… Read more »

Let’s start a campaign….

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The recent blogs on this site discussed the need for individual action around climate change – amongst other thoughts.  Today I was reading the news articles and browsing Facebook and it got me thinking about how the awareness around these issues get propagated and why some causes/ideas/events seem to move much faster than others.  Yes… Read more »

Have more conversations

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The email discussion recorded below ensued after a link was shared which spoke about “20 things YOU can do to address the climate crisis“.  Read that article first! This conversation is a valuable starting point to thinking about what you can do … have more conversations! [Edited to remove too many personal aspersions, and spell… Read more »

Climate Noir

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It was a dark and stormy night… I always wanted to write something that started that way, so here goes, exerts from a gritty, tongue in cheek film noir adaptation of issues inherent in the ethics of climate services given limits to predictability. I would like to remind that in true film noir tradition, these… Read more »