Early Warning

We are in brand new territory:

“When you have an El Niño occurring on top of the long-term warming trend, it’s like a double whammy.”—Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy.

Any business that does not, as a matter of urgency, become climate literate, is going to experience considerable pain.

“Dartmouth scientists estimated that the 1997-1998 El Niño led to $5.7 trillion in lost gross domestic product the following five years. Their modeling estimates that by the end of this century, El Niños will have blocked some $84 trillion in GDP.”

Climate disruption is real and is coming at us at break neck speed.

How ready are you?

#futureofwork #disruption #climateliteracy

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-el-nino-climate-change-extreme-weather/

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Here was the impact from the 2015/16 event in our region.

https://gfcs.wmo.int/sites/default/files/Sithole_El%20Nino%20Impacts%20in%20Southern%20Africa.pdf

The City of Cape Town came extremely close to its water Day Zero

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_water_crisis