Posted on 03/12/2018 9:17:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
KAKUMA, Kenya - These barren plains of sand and stone have always known lean times: times when the rivers run dry and the cows wither day by day, until their bones are scattered under the acacia trees. But the lean times have always been followed by normal times, when it rains enough to rebuild herds, repay debts, give milk to the children and eat meat a few times each week.
Times are changing, though. Northern Kenya has become measurably drier and hotter, and scientists are finding the fingerprints of global warming. According to recent research, the region dried faster in the 20th century than at any time over the last 2,000 years. Four severe droughts have walloped the area in the last two decades, a rapid succession that has pushed millions of the world’s poorest to the edge of survival.
Amid this new normal, a people long hounded by poverty and strife has found itself on the frontline of a new crisis: climate change.
Chris Funk, a climatologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has linked recent drought to the long-term warming of the western Pacific Ocean as well as higher land temperatures in East Africa, both products of human-induced climate change. Global warming, he concluded, seems to produce more severe weather disruptions known as El Niños and La Niñas, leading to “protracted drought and food insecurity.”
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Actually, what’s coming-up is “colder, drier, hungrier”.
Does that make them two-thirds right?
You know what really punishes the “world’s poorest”? Socialism. Including Socialism disguised as “combating Global Warming.”
I didn’t know climate was a sentient entity that could discriminate who it harms.
Must be like SUVs and Guns.
“”””” the region dried faster in the 20th century than at any time over the last 2,000 years”””””””””
So these people that live in huts and run barefoot in races have kept meticulous and detailed weather records for 2000 years?
I’d love to get my hands on those weather reports dating back to the time of Christ!!
Why of course....
Now someone trying to be credulous might think “Tree rings” but I’d want to see how that was tracked.
You know what really punishes the “world’s poorest”?....Tribalism.
Or... Teach the chillun how to make the land yield more and not waste it on government.
That’s why they’re all “immigrating” to America you dummies. They move to Minnesota where they are cooler, wetter and fatter. All weather is local.
When I want to know something in Science...I talk to people with names like SOMINI SENGUPTA.
There was an old Sam Kinison routine about famine in the desert. It was funny as heck, but accurate. Things don’t grow well in sand.
Anyone can claim to be a "scientist" and can cherry pick data and iterate over trillions of bytes of data for weeks on end if need be. He then finds a "sweet set" that gives him the desired outcome. "Even a child can do it."
The software compliantly will generate lovely PowerPoint tables, charts, and graphs to make all the bogosity look "official". Who can argue with such beautiful exposition!
We have to keep in mind that this is their religion. This is part of their liturgy. This is how they worship their golden calf, the god of Gaia.
Don’t forget mohammadism.
So I need to send a check somewhere, right?
Trump can fix gorebull warming by the time he finishes his second term. This is how he does it.
He announces a partnership with companies throughout the world to provide desalination facilities along the African coastline. With that will come piping infrastructure to take fresh water throughout the continent. Dripper technology will enable plants to be grown in sand, just like in Israel. In addition, the pipes will be coated with a film that absorbs sunlight so the same pipes can be part of an electrification system to provide power to both the desalination plants and rural areas.
Scientists can determine how many trees will be needed to absorb excess CO2 and produce oxygen. With the addition of this, crops can be grown in places never before thought of and can form new economies.
And best of all, with the desalination facilities in place, the world won’t flood from the rising of the oceans. (yes, that is sarcasm)
Funny thing about this is it is feasible and the entire left wing scientific community didn’t come up with it. Three guys drinking a bit too much tequila one night did.
I looooove Dry heat!
It is YOU, NYT, and your liberal anti-Population Growth agenda that is killing the world’s poorest.
Rather than aid in third world energy development to pave the road for self-sufficiency, you hold them hostage to your handouts.
Our aid is conditional on promoting abortion, contraception, undermining agriculture, and energy development.
YOURS is the worst kind of bigotry, pretending that only you can save them from themselves by keeping them oppressed and dependent, least they compete for the use of their own resources.
Not to mention that there are very few tree species with a 2,000 year life-span, and probably none in Kenya.
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