© Barbara JonesOpen Billed Storks at Sunset, Botswana, Africa
The former Director of Meteorological Services, David Lesolle, told Mmegi in an interview this week that climate change is manifesting itself in climate variability and excessive rainfall that came even in winter, making its utilisation difficult.
Lesolle said though the developing countries are adversely affected by this climate change phenomenon, they are not its cause. Developed countries caused it. He said, "We cannot stop climate change but adapt it. We can only stop our emissions."
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He said signs of the vulnerability of developing countries in Africa happened a few years ago when the cyclones occurred in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean. This was in 2000 when the Eline cyclone brought vast rainfalls into Botswana and South Africa where dams were filled beyond capacity. Both countries opened their dams so that their walls would not be damaged. The excessive waters flowed into Mozambique.
