Posted on 06/16/2021 10:41:45 PM PDT by blueplum
Urban areas have ‘heat islands’, but the desert is another animal, and there is a lot of desert in the western US.
Unlike, say, the Saharan desert, which is bare sand and mobile dunes, American desert floors are generally shaded with (rather noxious) vegetation, adapted to survive droughts common to an area that may last decades or centuries. Sand and scattered rock outcroppings are poor heat sinks which is why there is such a drastic, at times 50 degree, temp change between day and night in the desert. A camper may wake up shivering at 5am but by 9am it will be 100 degrees or more in the summer, too hot for rattlers to survive exposed.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-major-deserts-of-the-united-states.html
climate changers are science deniers
Recent mega droughts in North America go back to 900AD to 1300AD. The Sierra and Northwest Basin drought of 400 years was followed by the Great Basin/Mississippi Valley 500 year drought, catastrophic for the corn cultures and hunter/gatherers as well as buffalo and other game, at the same time England was enduring a little ice age. Same for Central and South America. The Mayans didn’t build irrigation canals because of plentiful rainfall but because every drop of water was valuable.
Also, contrary to popular propaganda, “climate change” has never been a reason for people to quit their country. Weather does cause people to move away or nearer to fresh water, but within their own country; violence and corruption have been the primary historical drivers drivers of complete exodus.
80 to 95 percent.
Sounds like here.
What gets me is the ‘’climate change’’ bs as an excuse for this human garbage to come flooding across our border.
So we’re supposed to believe there’s ‘’climate change’’ occurring everywhere around the planet but here in the US?
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