[suthener]

Do none of these people see the irony of claiming global warming is at fault for a desert turning green that, thouands of years ago, was, well, green? What caused it to become a desert? Could it possibly be that, over time, things change?

[calex59]

Do none of these people see the irony of claiming global warming is at fault for a desert turning green that, thouands of years ago, was, well, green? What caused it to become a desert? Could it possibly be that, over time, things change?

It was all those UFOs of the aliens that helped build the pyramids. The CO2 they spewed was terrible!/SAR. Actually they have known for a long time that Egypt was green and had lots of rain at least 10,000 years ago. The erosion of the sphinx is thought to have been caused by rain, which means they received lots of rain at one time.

[Cementjungle]

I went on a camel trip in southern Algeria back in the 80’s and there were cave drawings there of natives hunting big game, with trees and things like that in the scenes. You could also still find ancient fish hooks in the desert.

[VOA]

And there are now signs of a tiny shift back towards greener conditions
in parts of the Sahara, apparently because of global warming,...

So I guess "global warming" will make the Sahara a wheat-producing
region again, allow the USA to raise year-round crops of grasses
for ethanol (like Brazil), and we won't be bothered by polar bears
in Alaska and Canada anymore.

This works for me!
And the Russians/Siberians that are going to finally get in
some sunbathing days!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[KamperKen]

But isn’t this a good thing, the Sahara getting greener? The article has demonstrated one of the benefits of global warming, though that was certainly not their intent (assuming the mechanism is global warming, which I doubt).

But let’s see, when was the Sahara last green? Around the end of the last ice age? So, the Sahara was greener in a cooler world. Hmmm. This impels me to draw the opposite conclusion; the world is now cooling.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

They don't even see the irony of making that prediction, just 2 years after making the opposite prediction. This is what was predicted in May, 2006:

“Expanding deserts

The new results suggest that the tropics have expanded by 2 degrees latitude, or 140 miles, over the past 26 years.

“It's a big deal,” said study team member Thomas Reichler, a meteorologist at the University of Utah. “If this is true, it also would mean that subtropical deserts are expanding into heavily populated mid-latitude regions.” “

More here: http://www.livescience.com/environment/060525_tropics_expansion.html

Global warming isn't science, because it cannot be falsified.

[Eva]

I thought that it snowed in Baghdad for the first time in a hundred years, this year. That doesn’t sound like global warming to me.

[SunkenCiv]

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