Surprising study shows...

[Backseat Driver]

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-death-tolls-climate-disasters-balloon.html
AUGUST 14, 2023

Death tolls from climate disasters will 'balloon' without investment in Africa's weather stations, experts warn

The climate crisis is increasing the frequency and intensity of floods, droughts and heat waves, with Africa expected to be among the global regions hit hardest.

Yet the systems and technologies across the continent that monitor and forecast weather events and changes to water levels are "missing, outmoded or malfunctioning"—leaving African populations even more exposed to climate change.

This is according to a team of risk experts and climatologists from the UK and Africa led by the University of Cambridge, who warn that without major and rapid upgrades to "hydromet infrastructure," the damage and death toll caused by climate-related disasters across Africa will "balloon."

Writing in the journal Nature, the authors point to latest research showing that—over the last two decades—the average number of deaths caused by a flooding event in Africa is four times higher than the European and North American average per flood...[snip]
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Seems like a no-brainer to improve and add "stations" and recruit candidates for occupations in this field - Seems these improvements are needed as much as discussion/funding for alternative energy. Have African nations requested any assistance addressing these basic concerns?

[Think. Again.]

1. I'm going to...

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...start looking for any nonprofits, NGO's, scientific, educational, and aid organizations that are willing and able to rectify this somehow.

It could be as easy as crowd-sourcing funding for the equipment they need, or it could mean a lot of diplomatic footwork.

But this can't be ignored. It's unacceptable that the populations that have done the least to cause climate chaos are the ones who will suffer from it most (including all younger and future generations worldwide).

Any info or action opportunities I can find I will post here and in the Activism group. And if I can't find any, well I'll come back here, gather up some good folk, and together we CAN make it happen.

Added on edit:

I also want to point out that the climate chaos, caused by CO2 emissions, that we're just beginning to experience, is a global situation.

Our atmosphere doesn't have any political or cultural borders.

The problems are literally World-Wide. Any solutions, or mitigation that we try to enact will have to be approached from a global perspective to have any chance of being effective.

The equipment that is missing in Africa is missing from OUR list of tools we could use to take climate action.

When I say "OUR", I mean ALL of US, Humanity, ourselves.