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Being Green - 25 Aug 23_Prof Francois Engelbrecht, a climate scientist at Wits University

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- In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook talks to Prof Francois Engelbrecht, a
climate scientist at Wits University’s Global Change Institute about a new study which
suggests that the extreme weather and weather-related events experienced in the northern
hemisphere this summer will increase in frequency and severity unless the world stops
burning fossil fuels.
25 Aug 2023 English South Africa Health & Fitness

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