Why do we get these whiny, simping, twisted panty stories? Yeah, I know, they are ginning up support to tax ourselves trillions of dollars to stop climate change.
Posted on 02/21/2025 11:27:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of manuscripts.
But it now stands on the brink of oblivion. Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city’s 8th-century core and are encroaching on neighborhoods at its current edge. Residents say the desert is their destiny.
As the world’s climate gets hotter and drier, sandstorms are more frequently depositing inches and feet of dunes onto Chinguetti’s streets and in people’s homes, submerging some entirely. Tree-planting projects are trying to keep the invading sands at bay, but so far, they haven’t eased the deep-rooted worries about the future.
Community leader Melainine Med El Wely feels agonized over the stakes for residents and the history contained within Chinguetti’s walls. It’s like watching a natural disaster in slow motion, he said.
“It’s a city surrounded by an ocean of sand that’s advancing every minute,” El Wely, the president of the local Association for Participatory Oasis Management, said. “There are places that I walk now that I remember being the roofs of houses when I was a kid.”
“Human-caused climate change is the culprit; known for making the planet warmer, it is also making more and more land drier,” the U.N. report said. “Aridity-related water scarcity is causing illness and death and spurring large-scale forced migration around the world.”
Scientists and policymakers are mostly concerned about soils degrading in once-fertile regions that are gradually becoming wastelands, rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert.
Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate is ushering in many of the consequences that officials have warned about. Trees are withering, wells are running dry and livelihoods are vanishing.
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Well I guess they better all move here then. Eye roll.
Don’t care.
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Build a wall. Keep the invading sand out. Deport any intrusions. Sell the sand to Norway.
North Africa was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. And then it wasn’t. Was human-caused climate change to blame?
Quick, one billions USAID funds for a study to confirm that its ‘global warming’ that is harming these worthy indigenous peoples.
Oh wait, we’re done with that. How about ten bucks to SEND THEM SOME SUITCASES!!
So you say the climate has been changing since at least the 800s. Wow, I thought that only began in 2008.
The Saharan desert is always growing and shrinking, getting wet and getting arid. It's been going on for millions of years. Most estimates place the origin of the Saharan Desert at five million years ago. It's gone through many cycles.
Let's see what Grok 3 has to say about the Saharan wet/dry cycles:
Scientific evidence indicating that the Saharan wet/dry cycles are primarily driven by Earth's orbital precession, which occurs approximately every 20,000 to 21,000 years. This periodicity is linked to changes in the North African monsoon, causing the Sahara to alternate between arid desert conditions and wetter, greener phases often referred to as "Green Sahara" or North African Humid Periods.It's really surprising the the Associated Press author didn't think of researching the wet/dry Saharan and monsoon cycles. I mean it took me about three minutes to ferret out the above information and I'm not even a professional AP writer.5,000,000 years ÷ 20,000 years per cycle = 250 wet/dry cycles
Scientific studies, such as those examining marine sediment records and dust deposits, confirm that these oscillations have been occurring for at least 11 million years, with a roughly 20,000-year rhythm over the last 240,000 years, and longer-term records suggest similar patterns extending back further. Over the past 8 million years, around 230 humid periods have been identified, averaging about one every 34,000 years in some proxy records, though this periodicity adjusts closer to 20,000–21,000 years when focusing on precession-driven monsoon shifts
Just kidding. We all know the AP is a bunch of leftist propagandists with an agenda.
Smells like BS
The Sahara is amazing. And to think we have found ruins that have been buried under the sand some for over 2 thousand years! I want to know what happened 2 thousand years ago that caused them to flee and the cities to be buried?
Why do we get these whiny, simping, twisted panty stories? Yeah, I know, they are ginning up support to tax ourselves trillions of dollars to stop climate change.
It is the will of allah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania
Scroll halfway down to Demographics. Apparently, Mauritania has, over the last 70 ish years, become a much more desirable p;ace to live.
I don’t really care, Margaret.
Sand dunes shift with the wind. That’s not something that started with “climate change.” Every time the MSM makes such a linkage without being able to justify their claim they beclown themselves and lose more credibility.
To think, if only someone can convert salt water to fresh water, they could plant forests, using chemicals in the sand as fertilizer. Green the place and create natural barriers while at the same time providing fresh water for sanitary use as well as farm use. Then, if only then they could possibly harvest those lands and either sell them domestically or on the foreign market.
But can it be done? They were doing this in Israel as far back as 1973.
Theu need Bush’s weather machine to cause it to rain. Turn it down some. Don’t want a bunch of Katrina’s.
Quick, put up some Wind Farms and Solar panels!
“North Africa was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. And then it wasn’t. Was human-caused climate change to blame?”
i think all the forests were chopped down thousands of years ago, resulting in Desertification ...
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