Prof Stuart Piketh was awarded the SASAS Medal, the highest honour in South African atmospheric sciences. (Image: Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU)
It has happened. The world is 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in preindustrial times. A threshold has been breached, and the times they are a-changin’.
When Prof Francois Engelbrecht, president of the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences (SASAS), opened the 38th Annual Conference of the South African…