Climate does have a lot to say about how we develop particularly in Africa where extreme climate events are going to be commoner than before. The effects of climate change on health, energy, environment and above all development is a cause for the concern of African climate scientists. As a matter of fact, the importance of global climate change to international development has enrolled non climate scientists like physicists and mathematicians in the bid to study and predict the emerging climate with increasing efficiency.
This blog entry is to renew my earlier call for us to model climate change specifically for the African region without much dependence on GCMs.
So if you are a mathematician, engineer, physisist, atmospheric chemist, or even a social scientist, lets work together on this!

What would be required to assist in organizing the WAYS-AFRU launch. I submitted an article for the newsletter and I need some form of authorization to help find sponsors in Nigeria. Who will attend to my clamour? hjroman?????
Lets do it!

Global climate change research seem to emphasis regional climate modelling. Africa needs to be involved in this dimension because of her importance to the understanding of climate change. The aerosol loadings, sea surface temperature around the equator, anthropogenic gases emissions, ecological changes and changing incoming solar radiation are the areas we need to work on. Who's going to join this move!