Climate Change. Colonial Diaries in South Africa are Helping Scientists Reconstruct Weather Patterns of the Past to Protect Against Future Events

The current climate crisis raises many questions. Some are forward-looking: how can this be fixed? Some look to the recent past: how did we get here? And some reach further back into history: are today’s extreme heat waves, catastrophic droughts and floods all due to climate change? Was climate and weather this bad 100 or a few hundred years ago?