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Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert (apnews.com)

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[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 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.

[-] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 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.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Isn't there no soil there now?

[-] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It will again in the future, but not because of climate change hopefully. It's originally caused by the earth's axial tilt, and which way is pointing towards the sun during the Earth's parihelion and aphelion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

[-] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 months ago

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

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