More about the BBC’s Africa temperature increase

The claim that some parts of Africa ‘have become 3.5 degrees hotter in the past 20 years’ has now been removed from the commentary of the BBC Africa documentary after Leo Hickman’s investigation − see also my previous post The Power of a Tweet. But where exactly did this 3.5 degree figure come from?

The Power of a Tweet … two examples

Over the past few months, two of my Tweets have had more impact than I expected…