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Title: 700,000 Square Kilometers Of Added Green Vegetation, Climate Change Shrinks Sahara Desert By Whoppin
Post by: rangerrebew on January 20, 2019, 03:56:12 pm

700,000 Square Kilometers Of Added Green Vegetation, Climate Change Shrinks Sahara Desert By Whopping 8%!

By P Gosselin on 16. January 2019

Almost daily the CO2 Science site brings reports on the impact of climate change on the living world. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne here

Recently, CO2 Science brought up a paper in Nature Communications.
Using satellite images, Venter et al. 2018 found an eight percent increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa over the last three decades, underscoring the global “greening trend”.

http://notrickszone.com/2019/01/16/700000-square-kilometers-of-added-green-vegetation-climate-change-shrinks-sahara-desert-by-whopping-8/ (http://notrickszone.com/2019/01/16/700000-square-kilometers-of-added-green-vegetation-climate-change-shrinks-sahara-desert-by-whopping-8/)

Title: Re: 700,000 Square Kilometers Of Added Green Vegetation, Climate Change Shrinks Sahara Desert By Who
Post by: Free Vulcan on January 20, 2019, 04:35:11 pm

5000+ years ago, the Sahara used to be steppe and grassland. Sounds like what goes around comes around.