"And Leon is getting la-a-a-arger."
1964 - 1963…..pretty much matches the 30 year cycle theory
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.
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.
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.
Ping.
The study is bunk, it really has to do with Atlantic Multidecal Oscillation having been in warm phase since the droughts back in the 1980s. Warm phase appears to be ending so droughts likely will be back
Fewer people die from climate warming than climate cooling and ice ages.