2007June16: “Two decades ago, the rains in southern Sudan began to fail. … Scientists at first considered this to be an unfortunate quirk of nature. But subsequent investigation found that it coincided with a rise in temperatures of the Indian Ocean, disrupting seasonal monsoons. This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,” wrote UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon in the Washington Post (Washington Post, 2007).
Reference: Washington Post. 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html
Image Description: Darfur refugee camp in Chad. Photo taken by Mark Knobil, 2005March29. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Darfur_refugee_camp_in_Chad.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
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