Hunger, disease stalk East Africa after ‘hottest decade’ recorded
Record-breaking temperatures around the globe made 2014 the hottest year in more than a century, according to reports by US scientists. FILE PHOTO | TEA GRAPHIC |
Like modern-day religious prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world, scientists have been predicting doom if man continues polluting the earth; but only a few countries in the developed and the developing world have taken the apocalyptic warnings of global warming seriously.
However, a recent study by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) that the earth experienced unprecedented climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade should be a wake-up call for all, East Africans included.
