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The Sahara is growing, thanks in part to climate change
Washington Post ^ | March 29, 2018 | By Darryl Fears

Posted on 03/30/2018 5:49:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: ArtDodger

When I was a kid, the Sahara was expanding because of deforestation. Hmmmmm....


21 posted on 03/30/2018 7:18:06 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This again? The Sahara was growing years ago! Then came a rainy season and it shrunk. Then the warning it was growing again! Then the rains came and it shrunk again.


22 posted on 03/30/2018 7:49:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the boundaries of the Sahara have contracted and expanded for eons. And is cited as one of the reasons that Africa remained a nomadic continent.
23 posted on 03/30/2018 10:43:56 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: ClearCase_guy
So, they're basically telling us that the Earth is cooling

Yeah, that was what they were teaching in high school back in the seventies(before Al Gore).

The Sahara used to be a lush tropical jungle then the earth cooled and sucked up all the water and trapped it at the poles.

If the poles are warming the trapped ice, shouldn't it "regreen" the Sahara Desert?

Yeah, they are playing politics, not weather forecast.

24 posted on 03/30/2018 12:20:43 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Journal of Climate.

yeah no pre set poltical agenda here pretending to be "Science".

25 posted on 03/30/2018 12:22:13 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s been getting bigger for a long time. We’re being framed.


26 posted on 03/30/2018 9:27:29 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Ben Ficklin

It’s depletion of the soil that was once there, by farming. That’s what they don’t tell kids in school because they don’t want to scare them.


27 posted on 03/30/2018 9:36:49 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tell me the truth:

Can the Washington Post be more predictable?

I used to be able to expect what my daughter would do as an eight year old.

C’mon Post, try to act grown up.

Is this a real or fake news story?


28 posted on 03/30/2018 9:47:12 PM PDT by Maris Crane (`)
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