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By Patrick Luganda NECJOGHA Online
Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change

Maxwell Boykoff of the University of Colorado, Boulder in the United States of America has authored an informative book that should help professionals working in the media to come to grips with reporting about climate change from all angles and perspectives.

By KATARE MBASHIRU, 8th September 2010 @ 23:59, Total Comments: 0, Hits: 278

MOST regions are expected to experience drought to be caused by below normal seasonal rains, a situation which is likely to affect agriculture, food security and water supply.

The Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) Director General, Dr Agnes Kijazi, said in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday that the below normal rains would be triggered by prevailing climate system where the Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) in the Central Equatorial Pacific have been uncharacteristically cool for the past two months.

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FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - Secretariat
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PRESS RELEASE

Executive Secretary leaves United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change Secretariat

(Bonn, 18 February 2010) – Mr. Yvo de Boer has announced today that he will resign his position as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as of 1 July 2010.

The following statement is sent on behalf of the Met Office (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Natural Environment Research Council and the Royal Society.

Climate Science Statement

From Met Office, Natural Environment Research Council and the Royal Society

Story and Pictures
By Judith Akolo
in Ghana

Kakum National Park in Ghana is home to the remaining equatorial rain forest that once covered the African continent.
The Kakum National Park is one of the wonders that could one day end up in the world records. It amazes to imagine walking at a height described as a bird’s eye view.

It is dense and dark, as the lianas that form part of the flora weave around the other plants.

Ref. No. Met/ 7/23 Date: 6th March 2009
CLIMATE OUTLOOK FOR MARCH-APRIL-MAY 2009 (“LONG RAINS” SEASON)

1. HIGHLIGHTS

• The March-April-May 2009 seasonal rainfall forecast indicates that most parts of the country are likely to be depressed, except in Western, Nyanza, parts of Rift Valley and Coast Provinces;
• Sporadic heavy and shortlived rainfall storms may, however, occur in the arid and semi arid lands (ASALS);

Turning Up the Heat: Climate Change and Poverty in Uganda
Report embargoed until 17th July 2008
Summary: