[Paladin2]

Goal of the study is to make models to predict changes in this dust transport given various global warming scenarios . Therefore it’s just another plan to tap the work of tax slaves to support academic luxury.

[molson209]

The Earth doing it’s thing ,Baby

[mosesdapoet]

The dust contains minerals which is picked up by the earth’s magnetic field and deposited there by the wind.

[Sgt_Schultze]

So does South America owe Africa reparations too?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

But, wait! The Amazon is supposed to be desert or grass land right now due to all the logging we were warned about thirty years ago!

What happened!

[minnesota_bound]

and smog from China crosses into California and beyond.

[blam]

I used to live on the Atlantic coast, half-way down Florida (Melbourne). I often had African orange dust on my car.

I think this may be a bigger story related to the dust.

Bahamas Creation Linked to African Dust

Cyanobacteria fed by nutrients carried over the Atlantic in African dust may have initiated the process by which, over millions of years, calcium carbonate collected to build the Bahamas.

[blam]

African dust carries microbes across the ocean: are they affecting human and ecosystem health?