• where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    we’ll see how rare is the new “rare” event. Next thing you know Sahara is a well-known rainforest and amazon is the well-known desert.

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      4 months ago

      During the ice age, the Sahara was savanna, and it’s though to be possible it could go back due to climate change.

      That would be a nice silver lining on a mostly very bad mistake, I guess.

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          4 months ago

          Sand is a kind of soil. Actually, besides possibly salinity, deserts tend to be pretty fertile once you add water, because evaporation concentrates things.

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          I’m not making this up. It wasn’t caused by anthropogenic climate change before, obviously, but more than one thing can shift rains.