IT IS NOT YET TIME TO CHANGE THE LANGUAGE
By Fredrick Ochieng` Mbima During the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio Conference in 1992, the language was that of disaster preparedness. Scientists had projected a world condemned by disasters due to an anticipated significant Change of the climate. The change whose cause was pegged on a significant increase in the global greenhouse gases due to increased industrialization would worsen with time therefore prompting preparedness. Scientists agreed that the threat would be more real when temperatures from preindustrial period increased above 2 0 C. This position has not changed since current commitments are still objected towards ensuring temperatures remain below 2 0 C by the year 2100. The question is therefore, why the language has changed yet we are not yet close even to 1.5 0 C increase in temperatures. Why are current disasters identified with Climate Change yet the world is still at safe levels of the global temperatures. In