TERRIBLE NEWS FOR CLIMATE CATASTROPHISTS: THE SAHARA IS GETTING GREENER

Breitbart ^ | June 2,2015 | JAMES DELINGPOLE

[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…”

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[Bulwinkle]

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

[spokeshave]

Rising greenhouse gases caused rains to return to the region

Not only that....but by some mysterious and unexpected process it turns out that CO2 promotes plant life.

The earth is doomed to an overabundance of vegetation.

[BuffaloJack]

Fewer people die from climate warming than climate cooling and ice ages.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s based on a relatively reasonable theory as to how the earth regulates its temperature. More heat -> more clouds -> less solar radiation gets to ground level.

You’d almost think God invented that.

This theory makes more sense than the global warming computer models, which virtually whiff on clouds (and therefore come out far more pessimistic than even hyped-up measurements).

[oldbrowser]

We don’t need people hating more people here on FR.

It was sarcasm.

[GreenAccord]

It’s based on a relatively reasonable theory as to how the earth regulates its temperature. More heat -> more clouds

I am good with that. Let's just agree that CO2 didn't make for MORE HEAT, at least, enough to fire off a desert-greening rain shift.

[ExSoldier]

Thanks!

[ExSoldier]

Man plans and God laughs....

[fishtank]

Oops.

Sorry.

I thought you were being serious.

[SunkenCiv]

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