[Red Badger]

PinGGG!.......................

[z3n]

Climate change IS real.

It’s just not anthropogenic

[DCBryan1]

"I have a dream"

[Resolute Conservative]

Tear down those pyramids, they caused it.

[Bob434]

The industrial age sure put a stop to that!... oh wait.

[nuconvert]

I thought we already knew that it used to be green?

[Lowell1775]

So.....I was reading this in my Weekly Reader 60 years ago and have seen many books/mags showing cave paintings of lush greenery and critters in the Sahara caves in later life...some more recent art showed greenery in what is not desert as late as the Phoenician, Greek and even Roman eras.

I was taught the ever rising Himalayas is what changed the weather patterns to cause both the Sahara and Gobi Deserts.

Bu they also taught me life began at conception and there were only two genders.

[jjotto]

If dating is accurate, the start of Egyptian building of giant pyramids was before the current desertification.

[al_c]

I thought we already knew this?

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[Carry_Okie]

This has been known for a very long time. A stalagmite in Oman has shown for over a decade that the Intertropical Convergence Zone once drew the Atlantic monsoon all the way to the Mediterranean. The southern Arabian Peninsula was a swamp. The Sahara was 10% water by area. The rivers wer mapped by the Space Shuttle using ground penetrating radar...

[\/\/ayne]

That’s assuming radioactive decay is constant over a period of 8,000 years. Start testing and tell me in 8,000 years.

[montag813]

Burning oil turned the Sahara into a desert! Must have been those darned Jews burning all their oil in the Temple (checks dates...yep that’s it!).

[PAR35]

Those woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths drove really big gas guzzling SUVs causing global warming.

[Bon of Babble]

Saw a documentary recently on The Sphinx - which sits in the middle of a very dry desert. Recent analysis showed that it has water damage from its earliest days when the area was lush and green - pushing the time of its construction way way back.

[aquila48]

And then came the SUV!

[bobbo666]

Well, yeah. That was the previous time when the climate had warmed — much higher than now. When that happens the Sahara gets lots of rain.

[ridesthemiles]

LEARNED THAT SAHARA WAS ONCE VERY FERTILE & GREEN IN 8th grade-—about 1953.

[SpaceBar]

African humid period - wiki

[Bellflower]

The earth still changing since the mega, mega... impact of the great flood of Noah. It was left very wet, with great rain, and snow falls from heated oceans, and also mega volcanic activity blocking enough of the sunlight to, at the same time, keep air temperature cooler.