Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?

National Geographic News ^ | July 31, 2009 | James Owen

[denydenydeny]

This is interesting because climate activists always need to spin climate change as a catastrophe. No matter what the situation, warming can only be destructive because, otherwise, the need for IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SAVE THE WORLD NOW!!! goes away.

Unfortunately for them, this particular story cannot be spun negatively.. The Sahara even lacks that old standby of climate-change hysteria, cute animals threatened by a greening climate. So they are forced through gritted teeth to report it straight.

Science detached from politics. What a concept.

[palmer]

this particular story cannot be spun negatively

They also left out the fact that greening the Sahara is a negative feedback.

[bmwcyle]

Oh no not rain in the desert. This could be the end. /sarcasm

[big'ol_freeper]

I don't golf but this sounds like a money maker to me. Can you imagine the golf courses and surrounding communities that could be built and sold. The courses would be very challenging...with fantastic bunkers to overcome.

"What's up doc?"

[thulldud]

Cap-and-tax is not about fixing "global warming"; it is about controlling your energy use.

"Global warming"(aka "climate change") is just a tin pan that the elitists bang on to scare the sheep into the pen. Ever notice that whatever the crisis is at the moment, the solution is always the same?

Tells me that it's all about the "solution", and not about the crisis.

[Bender2]

I'm sure the Obama White House will announce... it if all due to The Øbamanation's poop he left in Cairo. It was transplanted in the Sahara to jump start the transformation.

Now, if we could only get him... to pee in the ocean to complete the cure for global warming!

Hey? I'm doing... my part!

[reformedliberal]

Acacias are more like thorn bushes than trees. They are adapted to dry conditions. They resist evaporation and hoard water, making them able to survive on little. They stand up well to constant drying winds. They are small and stunted.

I have seen them everywhere on desert islands like Bonaire, NA. They remind me of our own prickly ash, useful mainly to goats and burros, of which there are lots in areas full of acacias. They make good livestock fences. I do seem to recall some sort of seed pods, which perhaps are an animal/bird feed. They will hold the soil, however, such as it is in these sorts of places, where it is mostly sand that needs to be sifted to remove the donkey dung before being amended in order to be used for anything.

But, maybe this is just to get started on NatGeo remaking its credibility.

[Army Air Corps]

Thanks for this post! I am sending the link along to some friends of mine.

[redpoll]

>>>This desert-shrinking trend is supported by climate models, which predict a return to conditions that turned the Sahara into a lush savanna some 12,000 years ago.<<<

~~~During the last ICE age.~~~

I was thinking the same thing. The last ice age was also a great time to live in the American West, too - huge freshwater lakes, forests in the hills.

However, the headline talks about “climate change,” which is constant and would occur without humanity. The nice thing about climate as a propoganda weapon is that, as the cliche goes, everyone talks about it, and in a nice twist, only centralized leftist policy can do anything about it.