Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; 6000 years ago during the Holocene Climatic Optimum the Sahara desert was covered in lakes and vegetation. All this went away when the world cooled. Some of the poorest people in the world, descendants of survivors of the great drying, struggle to survive by scratching a living in the Sahel, the marginal land on the southern edge of the Sahara.
Africa climate change report reveals heat rising north and south, Sahel getting wetter
26 October 2020
“In recent months we have seen devastating floods, an invasion of desert locusts and now face the looming spectre of drought because of a La Niña event. The human and economic toll has been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.
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Africa has been warming progressively since the start of the last century, and in the next five years, northern and southern Africa are set to get drier and hotter, while the Sahel region of Western Africa will get wetter, WMO’s Regional Strategic Office Director, Filipe Lucio, told a press conference.
“Overall, Africa needs to take action. Action is needed today in terms of adaptation, but also is needed tomorrow in terms of mitigation”, Lucio said.
The agricultural sector is key to building climate resistance, since it is the dominant employer and it relies on the use of water and energy – both heavily implicated in climate change, he said.
Northern and southern areas under threat of aridity and desertification would benefit from reforestation, which helps to prevent water runoff and creates vegetation which supports the hydrological cycle.
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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1076162
Carbon obsessed organisations like the United Nations only see the negative side of global warming.
Imagine the benefits to Africa and Arabia, and other arid equatorial regions, if global warming restored the ancient Monsoons, which failed 6000 years ago after the end of the Holocene Optimum? Northern Africa and Arabia could once again be like the Garden of Eden.
I suspect we shall run out of fossil fuel long before we release enough CO2 to make the climate that benign. Perhaps when recoverable fossil fuel runs out, our descendants will maintain elevated atmospheric CO2 levels by using nuclear powered furnaces to roast limestone and other CO2 rich minerals, to alleviate the suffering of our planet’s CO2 starved plants. They will most certainly laugh at the public climate change follies of our times, just as we laugh at the irrational concerns of our ancestors.
The Lunatics have seized control of the steering wheel at the UN.
Hooray.
I have been asleep since the end of October last year and have woken up on 1st. April 2021.
Seriously, people get paid, WITH OUR MONEY, to put out tripe like this?
( Not you, Eric, the UN. )
Good catch, Eric (and h/t to WS). As an official country representative at a large United Nations Event I have seen the UN up close and personal. They not only waste money at a grand rate they utilize the tax money from USA and other similar countries to undertake studies to nowhere and programs directly against the interests of the subsidizing countries. The UN has become a veto contest between China and the USA, watched by the others as they stuff themselves. Remember the old signs “Bankrupt Communism—Throw the UN Out of New York”? This greening of the earth is shirley upsetting the Greenies, what an enigma.
I was trying to correlate the drying of the Sahara with the change in climate in Scotland and Ireland that caused bog to replace woodlands. It seems the two events happened in roughly the same time frame as far as I could tell.
What was more interesting was that the majority of search results were about restoring bogs. Why would you want to, bogs are a bit like deserts in terms of biodiversity when compared to mixed woodland. If the climate is returning to a green Sahara then possibly Scotland and Ireland will become warmer and drier and bogs will be replaced naturally by trees.
With 70 million people facing starvation, an appeal for action has come from David Beasley, Director of the World Food Program—which won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. $1.6 of $6.8 billion was received, when 2000 billionaires sit by. Famine destabilization and mass migration are the alternative.
US farmers face major crises right now, and they could easily ramp up to deal with this with an Executive program.
Refilling Lake Chad with the Transaqua Project to restore agriculture is a major priority.
The policy of the UN agency in the lead is simply open genocide.
Nothing wrong with creating and preserving soil anywhere in Africa.
I don’t see that much negative in what was written, as it puts potential avenues up for discussion, rather than imposing a continent-wide UN government by diktat.
If adaptation to drier climate means planting trees, well that sounds sensible. It doesn’t have to be solely forests, it could be nut crops, fruit crops of certain kinds.
If more rain is going to come to the Sahel, then promoting development of groundwater, promoting topsoil development sounds sensible stuff.
If climate is going to change, who cares why if the solution is to adapt to the change in pragmatic and sensible ways?
I spent time in an oasis on the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. For those of us from lands where water is abundant, it is difficult to imagine a place where EVERYTHING depends on this one scarce commodity – where a small isolated community’s entire existence relies upon continued access to underground water and the ability to pump it to surface, and where the failure of water supply is the death of the community.
Love the irrational concerns comment at the end of the article.
These people eat food because of climate alarmism, but can have no other motive than helping humanity out of the goodness of their heart as their primary motive for perpetuating these lies.
I only hope the American people can see through these wicked lies.
The Sahara greening is a disaster affection millions.
When the Sahara was just an area of good unstable sand and little else, vermin and plagues were virtually unheard of. Now with all this greening there are plagues of locus an increased populations of vermin and people.
Hopefully the UN can organize some for of mass spraying in the area to kíll-off this unwanted green invasion of plants. The Sahara must be kept plant free and returned to its pristine sandy state.
The UN must take action!
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If you look at what the UN peeps are saying, they make it clear that they are terrified – just mind-blowingly TERRIFIED!!!! – of things they can’t control. And they can’t control weather, the planet itself, or even their own GI systems, so they have to squawk about it and point fingers while spinning in circles.
Okay, well, stop sending them money. Disband the UN, spend the money on improvements here at home, and put that real estate in NYC to better use – something like training migratory avian flocks to avoid wind farms and solar farms. Hey, anything is possible these days, including whirled peas!
The UN psychopaths clearly show their Malthusian agenda :
– a greening Sahara would indeed mean an increasing sub-saharian population, a very bad thing for the Malthusian obsessed by Paul R. Ehrlich’s “population bomb” lunacy.
Ancient lakes of the Sahara
greening the Sahel and upwards would be pretty good, so of course the Un is agin it.
Climate Change Deniers should take note.
Climate is always changing, and the fact that the Sahara Desert was a rich grassland 8 to 10 thousands years ago, is a very profound example of how climate has changed in the past, without the influence of anthropogenic emissions of CO2.
Unlike today’s concerns about climate, the late-1800s concern about horse manure were based on reality; increased amounts of horse manure were becoming more and more of a problem, with quite negative consequences and no solution in sight at the time. A better analogy would be the fear of witches during the 16th and 17th centuries.
wait…what?
They are terrified of the Sahara greening?
That confirms it, these people are afraid of plants. Plain and simple. It must be so! I mean think about the war to starve them out and how much money they have spent to increase plant famine around the globe. And now despite them doing their darndest to keep up the famine, the plants have rebelled and have broken out! How dare they! This mean fargin war!!
“Northern and southern areas under threat of aridity and desertification would benefit from reforestation, which helps to prevent water runoff and creates vegetation which supports the hydrological cycle. ”
Despite the stupid premise that the greening of the Sahara is bad this “mitigation” is probably a good idea that won’t slow the greening.
“….Urgent Climate Action Required to PREVENT the Greening of the Sahara Desert….”
Didn’t you know? We currently live in the Ideal Earth. Everything is absolutely perfect in our Garden – the temperature, the weather, the environment. ANY change to this, or any threat of a change, must be resisted to the last ditch…
There is a great Ted talk by Allan Savory – How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
He has decades of experience
https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertification_and_reverse_climate_change
Eric writes in the above article: “I suspect we shall run out of fossil fuel long before we release enough CO2 to make the climate that benign.”
Well, Monday’s WUWT post of an article authored by David Wojick reporting on the preprint of a paper by Wijngaarden and Happer ( https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/26/study-suggests-no-more-co2-warming/ ) is pretty strong evidence that any ADDITIONAL CO2 accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere (whether from natural or man-made sources) cannot possibly drive additional global warming.
This is pure and simple mental illness when any climatic change of any kind is seen as bad, even when it’s obviously beneficial like greening of a desert.
This extreme mental illness is linked to membership of the global warming death cult.
Looking at life they see only death.
News flash:
Urgent action needed to defund and ignore the UN!
I just hope that such scribblings that I leave behind, should they survive, will make my descendants realise how wise their great? Grandad was.
Il faut planter des baobabs et des KHEJRI / https://theconversation.com/khejri-larbre-qui-donne-vie-au-desert-143021
but is the Sahel greening, or is this just a recovery from earlier drought?
Nearly all the online references are from dubious climate skeptic sites.
I found this analysis:
‘Examination of the time series of greenness principally reveals two major periods: (a) 1982-1993 marked by below average vegetation and persistence of drought with a notable large-scale drought during the 1983-1985 period; and (2) 1994-2003, marked by a trend towards “greener” conditions with region-wide above normal vegetation conditions starting in 1994. Spatial patterns enable us to conclude that there is not a single footprint of desertification, rather they indicated the variability of green vegetation biomass over the region in response to inter-annual variations in rainfall.’