"And Leon is getting la-a-a-arger."
Posted on 06/02/2015 8:52:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Good news: the Sahara desert is getting greener because of “climate change.”
Climate change has achieved what Bob Geldof and Live Aid failed to do by ending the drought in the Sahel region of Africa that killed more than 100,000 people in the 1980s, a study has found. Rising greenhouse gases caused rains to return to the region south of the Sahara, from Senegal to Sudan, boosting crop yields since the 1990s and helping the population to feed itself without relying on foreign donations.
The study, in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that Sahel summer rainfall was about 10 per cent, or 0.3mm, higher per day in 1996-2011 than in the drought period of 1964-93.
I’m very much looking forward to the bit where the greenies get to the final stage of historical revisionism. “But, of course, we knew that global cooling was the real problem and that we were heading towards a new ice age,” all the usual suspects – from the once-distinguished heights of NASA and the Royal Society to the stygian depths of DeSmog – will all chorus. “Why we were all predicting as much as long ago as the 1970s…”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
1964 - 1963…..pretty much matches the 30 year cycle theory
1964 to 1993
Save the desert!!!
Whoa there, hoss. Don't hurt your shin jumping across that chasm on your way to THAT conclusion.
"And Leon is getting la-a-a-arger."
Ping.
Let’s not forget about the population bomb that will result from the greener deserts. More food, more people, more livestock, more greenhouse gases, even greener deserts, even more food, even more people, even more livestock, on and on. This is a catastrophe.
LOL! Good one.
God obviously has a sense of humor.
It was primarily grassland dotted with lakes during the last ice age.
Egypt has a “Valley of Whales” named after the large number of whale fossils found there.
One way to add moisture to the Sahara and there by improve it’s “greening” would be to build a channel from the north in of the Qattara depression to the Mediterranean Sea. This would result in the depression being flooded with salt water creating and inland sea.
If the channel to the Mediterranean is build wide enough, there would be new opportunities for commerce which would likely pay for the cost of the channel in a couple of decades.
Further this inland sea would add significant moisture to the area and create rains further inland and across the north African coast.
Idiots.
I have an article in front of me, dated July 20, 2006. It says that the “Sahara Desert Was Once Lush and Populated”.
It says: “But around 10,500 years ago, a sudden burst of monsoon rains over the vast desert transformed the region into habitable land.”
So these people are idiots, or lying, or both.
Also, New England was once covered in ice.
We don’t need people hating more people here on FR.
Humans are created in the image of God.
The rain will fall somewhere.
Even if global warming is real, water will still evaporate and it will still rain. The rain may shift but someplace is going to get wet.
Actually more water vapor will cause more clouds. This leads to some sunlight reflected before it hits the ground. Nice little feedback system that keeps us at a certain equilibrium.
I have read that the Sahara has a cyclical periods of wetness, it becomes lush.
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/oct/sahara-desert-savanna-climate
Ancient Rome survived on North African grain. Pity to disappoint the doom-mongers, but it’s a fact.
The last time the Sahara was a lush region was 10,000 years ago. There is a geologist who claims that the great Sphinx shows distinct signs of water erosion, meaning (he says) it has to be old enough to have been built during that wet period. If that’s the case then pretty much blows up most of our understanding of the rise of civilization.
So, global warming is causing greening of the Sahel. The Atlantic Multi Decadal Oscillation is soon to switch to its “cool” phase. This will likely result in more droughtlike conditions within the next decade or two. Will the oncoming drought also be the result of global warming?
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