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The climate facts belie the climate scares and climate forecasts - Politicsweb 15 March 2021 - Facebook recently extended its “climate science information centre” to South Africa, inter alia informing us that “heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires” have become “more frequent and intense” worldwide. John Kane-Berman  Facebook recently extended its “climate science information centre” to South Africa, inter alia informing us that “heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires” have become ...

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Are all those beaches shrinking and islands drowning? - Politicsweb 8 March 2021 - Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme, said that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. Melting polar ice caps would cause sea levels to rise by three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat-island nations, he warned. John Kane-Berman  ...

The Paris agreement: a costly and damaging failure? - Politicsweb 31 January 2021 - The US will shortly be part of the Paris agreement once again. It will therefore be committed to helping keep the rise in the planet’s temperature by the end of this century to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above the levels prior to the industrial revolution. Better still, the rise will be kept at no more than 1.5 degrees. John Kane-Berman  The US will shortly be part of the Paris agreement once again. It wi...

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Südekum, Nicole Woessner The robots are coming. According to a widely cited study, about 47% of total US employment is susceptible to computerized automation (Frey and Rahbari 2016, Frey and Osborne 2017). A heated discussion, stimulated by the current wave of automation, concerns the future of work and society. Recent empirical studies highlight ways that the rising importance of robots in industrial production have transformed the labour market and ...

Workshop Copyright: Image by digitalskennedy from Pixabay Speed read The hubs are creating jobs and improving livelihoods for Africa’s youth Tech sector needs to support women, says an expert Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution license, but please follow some simple guidelines: You have to credit our authors. You have to credit SciDev.Net — where possible include our logo with a lin...

Views: Visits 22 Cape Town — African technology hubs are challenging the dominance of traditional universities as sources of knowledge production, and are becoming better suited to a fast-paced knowledge economy, a study says. While traditional universities are struggling with limited resources, inadequate industry engagement and institutional disciplinary knowledge limitations, the tech hubs are effective in economic and social value creation by creating new jobs, stimulating the en...