Stellar reporting from your mainstream media: John Vidal spends 10 days traveling in Africa, sees bad stuff, blames carbon dioxide

Outlook bleak as rich polluters fail biggest test

I have just spent 10 days travelling across Africa to assess the impact of climate change. From north to south, the broad observations are remarkably similar. More floods, droughts, storms and changing seasons are being experienced: the heatwaves are getting longer and more frequent; the storms more intense; the night-time temperatures higher; the farmers see new diseases and pests; and the growing seasons appear disrupted. On top of that, the marginal areas are turning to desert and cities are becoming unbearably hot. The peer-reviewed science is sketchy but it's the best there is in a continent starved of research funds and it is consistent with the latest models done by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.