World's land turning to desert at alarming speed, United Nations warns

WCCO 4 ^ | 6/15/04 | Chris Hawley - AP

[traumer]

Dust to dust...

[johnfrink]

China has lost 36,000 square miles to desert an area the size of Indiana since the 1950s.

I read that as "India" and almost had a heart attack.

[Monty22]

You know, I did the same thing.

[dead]

But global warming is taking its toll, too.

Global warming leads to increased rainfall which causes desertification.

All outcomes prove the theory as it is constantly altered to conform to the facts which prove it correct.

It’s the world’s first indestructible scientific theory, which means it’s the best.

[Samurai_Jack]

The United Nations Credibility is also turning to dust at an alarming rate.

[azhenfud]

How much is this projected to cost American taxpayers?

[expatguy]

Maybe we need to start killing some people.

[traumer]

"Thirty-one percent of Spain is threatened "
And Islam will take care of the remaining 69%....

[xm177e2]

The answer is simple: we have to increase C0₂ emissions to encourage plants to grow in those desolate regions.

[Clara Lou]

We have no dust down here in Texas. Here north of Houston we're ahead on yearly rainfall by about 13"-- 2" today.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Global warming leads to increased rainfall which causes desertification."

Yes, I thought global warming was involved with the "greenhouse effect" which increases rainfall, melts the icecaps, and causes flooding. So, if I've got it right, global warming is responsible for increased rainfall, increased droughts, desertification, flooding, and a European ice age.

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

Can we say..... birth control?

[cryptical]

And the UN-sanctioned response:

How much will it cost our grandchildren if the US doesn't give the UN money to fight this problem?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Las Vegas, Palm Springs, etc....Tell the greenies to get the hell out of the way and let the industrialists have at it.
We have the technology, these whackos do everything they can to stop progress, and then blame everything on the people they stopped.

[Publius6961]

Desertification, global cooling, meteors or bolides and women and minorities hit hardest?

Woe is us!
We are doomed!

[ChuckShick]

From the mid-1990s to 2000, 1,374 square miles have turned into deserts each year an area about the size of Rhode Island.

Now, if we can only figure out a way to turn the liberals into sand. Where's Simon Barsinister when you need him?

[babyface00]

And all these problems can be traced to George W. Bush, right?

[TX Bluebonnet]

That's okay, my backyard is becoming a swamplike jungle. I'm doing my part.

[keithtoo]

Your skepticism only proves the theory is correct. It is presumed to increase world skepticism levels to catastrophic heights, thereby increasing all of the phenomena predicted.

Unless the opposite happens, which will verify the theory even more.