Global warming likely to hit Africa hard

“In 30 to 40 years’ time, climate change will be as great as other stresses such as malaria,” said Davi King, the British government’s chief scientific adviser, who was in South Africa to promote the Zero Carbon City program, a campaign organized by the British Council to raise awareness on global warming.

    Due to increase in carbon dioxide, the ice cap on Mount Kilimanjaro was unlikely to last another 15 years, he said.