Pedro M.S. Monteiro – The Conversation

Melt water on the Greenland ice sheet. The freshening of the North Atlantic is occurring again, driven by Greenland melt waters. Getty Images/Ashley Cooper

February 9, 2026

African climate science‑policy has a serious blind spot: the slowing Atlantic circulation

Guy Franklin Midgley, Stellenbosch University and Pedro M.S. Monteiro, Stellenbosch University

An important ocean circulation system is slowing down faster than expected.

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May 7, 2020

Choices in a fog of uncertainty: lessons for coronavirus from climate change

Robert (Bob) Scholes, University of the Witwatersrand; Albertus J. Smit, University of the Western Cape; Francois Alwyn Engelbrecht, University of the Witwatersrand; Guy Franklin Midgley, Stellenbosch University; Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand; Neville Sweijd, Applied Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Science; Pedro M.S. Monteiro, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and Pravesh Debba, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

The science to policy process that was developed to guide climate mitigation decisions can be applied to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, without having to be reinvented.

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