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Posted on 01/25/2026 2:13:35 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica
Over the past 5,000 years, East Africa has dried out. Now, new research finds that this change may be making the continent pull apart faster.
Faults in the East African Rift Zone have sped up since the levels of large lakes have dropped, according to research published in November in the journal Scientific Reports.
The findings highlight the two-way relationship between the climate and plate tectonics, said study senior author Christopher Scholz, a geologist, physicist and professor emeritus at Columbia University.
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A drying climate is making East Africa pull apart faster
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Well it’s a good thing them ice bergs and glaciers are melting. Oceans rising will certainly solve that pesky problem.
The climate is also speeding up the inevitable collision with the Andromeda galaxy.
That’s funny
Like when my cigars aren’t put in the humidor.
The irony is a supercontinent would be less than idyllic. Make a continent too large and ocean evaporation can’t reach the center. You wind up with an inhospitable desert in the interior due to lack of rainfall.
Oh my. That is dire. I just hope it doesn’t lead to the curtailment of grants to people like the simpleton who wrote this article
Never give up the Con!
Never!
The irony is a supercontinent would be less than idyllic. Make a continent too large and ocean evaporation can’t reach the center. You wind up with an inhospitable desert in the interior due to lack of rainfall.
Oh, you’re no fun anymore.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Sadly, there are people who will actually believe such utter nonsense. First heavy rains in California increase the likelihood of earthquakes, and now the desertification of Africa that’s been ongoing for over ten thousand years is accelerating a rift that’s been there for a few million. Wet, dry, hot, cold .... it’s all our fault.
Quick. Get the refugees over here to live in the US.
Our bank accounts and wallets are ready to be opened.
Hogwash. Pure unadulterated crap.
Apparently they haven’t gotten the memo that AI is the new king of the heap.
Is that part of why the Australian Outback is so inhospitable to exploring?
Possibly. I had the same thought.
Maybe the lakes are dropping because the shore lines are moving further apart.
Uh oh. Doesn’t sound good. Well, at least the sky isn’t falling….yet.
The driving force of continental drift is 100s of miles deep in the mantel and has not one damn thing to do with those lakes. In fact, a full lake would exert a driving force to expand the rift, and it would be a miniscule force.
Good science has been sullied by political activists pretending to be a scientists because they have a degree in the field.
Charlie, geologist and a few other degrees.
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