Talk:Climate change in Africa

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World Bank report 2013

User:Middayexpress, Why you removed: Africa is likely to be the continent most vulnerable to climate change [1]: According to the latest World Bank report 2013 in Africa:

• with 1.5°C-2°C warming by 2030-40 farmers will lose 40-80 % of cropland conducive to growing maize, millet, and sorghum.
• with 4°C warming by 2080 the annual precipitation may decrease 30 % in southern Africa.
  Refs: What Climate Change Means for Africa, Asia and the Coastal Poor World Bank 19.6.2012 and World's poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank The Guardian 19.6.2012

Watti Renew (talk) 13:49, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't remove that phrase. I just moved it further down. Middayexpress (talk) 14:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

True, thanks Watti Renew (talk) 14:38, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

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Moved information over from "Climate change adaptation"

Hey! I moved quite a bit of information over from the Climate change adaptation article. Look over at the talk page for more info. Please give me any feedback! Jlevi (talk) 01:25, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Cut text that was under "Emissions and Deforestation"

I don't know if this text can be put to use - doesn't look like it to me at first sight: The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) is organization that focus on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, forest carbon stock conservation, the long and continuous management of forests, and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries, activities commonly referred to as REDD+. The organization make her impact through the contributions and commitments totaling US$1.3 billion. EMsmile (talk) 07:20, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

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Not sure about the new list of NGOs

User:James Moore200 I see you have added a list of NGOs. I am not sure if this is the right place for that. It could become an endless list. It's not encyclopedic content; it's too detailed. I would either condense or remove it. What do you and others think? (are you in the Slack channel of the Wiki4Climate edit-a-thon by the way?) EMsmile (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you talk for that. I added the list to the best of my knowledge, it can be removed. James Moore200 (talk) 11:50, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Apparently it was a copyright violation anyhow? User:Diannaa has removed it. User:James Moore200 please view your talk page and respond to the latest warning there about copyright violation? EMsmile (talk) 15:32, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Making hidden revisions unhidden?

User:Diannaa, would it be possible that you make the revisions by User:Rkokhalid unhidden please? I think I understand the system now that those edits have not been reverted, just hidden. But the problem is later this week when I assess the contributions of the Wiki4Climate edit-a-thon, it will look like a bunch of edits by User:Rkokhalid were deleted as they would appear crossed out in his/her user contribution page. I thus would not be able to assess them. Is there a way to avoid that? I take it that the only edit you really wanted to delete is the addition by James Moore200 (the NGO list, see also comment just before this one on the talk page).EMsmile (talk) 15:35, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

In order to completely remove the material from the page history, all the intervening edits have to be hidden, from the time of insertion of the copyright material to its removal. This means that in many instances, harmless edits have to be hidden.— Diannaa (talk) 15:42, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

You can view the other edits by looking at this diff.— Diannaa (talk) 15:44, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Diannaa: The user contributions page of User:Rkokhalid still has those crossed out lines which looks bad even though he/she did nothing wrong. I don't understand why the intervening edits have to be hidden, why not simply cut out the "offending" text block? In this case the list of NGOs. Is that due to the way the bot works? I assume you're using a bot for this work rather than doing it manually, as it's too time consuming to do it manually, is that right? From the hidden revisions page it's hard to see exactly what was removed. So if it's a bot I think there is room for improvement. (Thinking about it more, I think I understand now that the reason why all the other revisions are hidden is because the copyrighted material mustn't be visible on any page, even in older versions. Perhaps they could be hidden in a different colour though to differentiate a revision that is hidden because it was in between compared to a revision that was hidden because it violated copyright). EMsmile (talk) 16:14, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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Error in "Temperature Change in Africa" graph?

At the top of the page is an image showing "Temperature change in Africa", starting with 1901 on the left (with the chart mostly showing blue lines extended below the middle), and ending with 2020 on the right (with the chart mostly showing red lines extending above the middle). There is no Y axis to show what those bars mean.

Below, the text states "Graph showing temperature change in Africa between 1901 and 2021, with red colour being colder and blue being warmer than average...". Given red is colder and blue is warmer, that suggests 1) that the chart is showing that Africa is cooling, and 2) the chart is set up so that colder/redder temperatures are higher on the Y axis. For the first, that doesn't match the rest of the page, which generally states that surface temperatures in African are increasing, not decreasing. For the second, that is an odd setup, as usually higher tempreatures would be higher on the graph, not lower.

I assume that this is actually a typo, and it should read "...with blue colour being colder and red being warmer than average...". Indeed, looking back at the listed source, and using the "bars with scale" option rather than just "bars", this adds a Y axis showing that higher/redder values correspond with an increase in temperature, not a decrease.

Am I mis-understanding this? Aawood (talk) 07:52, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi Aawood, I am really glad you spotted this! It turns out that it was me who edited the caption wrongly about a month ago in this edit. I've corrected it now. Red means warmer and blue means colder. And I think we should get a graph with a y-axis label, how do we do this? Perhaps User:DiagramLover can help. EMsmile (talk) 07:56, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Problems with the 3 png files

I just translated this article into Traditional Chinese, and found every time I clicked the files for details, it went blank. The problem could be caused by the % signs in the files's name. Can anybody help solve it? Thanks for your kind attention. ThomasYehYeh (talk) 01:29, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Has this problem been solved? If not, which files exactly do you mean? Thanks for doing the translations by the way. EMsmile (talk) 07:37, 26 October 2023 (UTC)