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North Africa seems to be greening as a result of climate change, which mostly occurs naturally.
Satellite photos and studies have shown that the Sahara desert has been shrinking over the past 40 years, e.g. read here and here.
The latest news is from the southeastern Moroccan desert, which is among the driest around the world, where it is reported to have gotten up to 100 mm of rain within a 24 hour period in September. Hard hit were villages 400 miles from the capital city of Rabat, including Tata, reports Al Jazeera here.
Once dry lakes are filling again
“What’s also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara are filling due to this event,” said Moshe Armon, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Earth Sciences and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Several of these lakes are visible in the image as dark blue areas, including one in Morocco’s Iriqui National Park (shown in detail within the inset circle).
“It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in such a short space of time,” added Houssine Youabeb of Morocco’s General Directorate of Meteorology. See more photos here.
“Preliminary satellite analysis shows accumulations of many tens to more than 200 millimeters of rainfall in the areas affected—roughly equivalent to what the region receives in a year. The rainfall accumulation estimates are based on NASA’s IMERG (Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM) data,” NASA reported.
The rains, of course, are welcome, making a harsh region a bit less harsh for those living there. Nothing you’ll hear about in the climate propaganda media.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/10/greening-rare-heavy-september-rainfalls-have-brought-back-lakes-in-the-sahara/
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Where were those lakes in 1850?
That’s when the climate was natural.
We must spare nothing to recreate it.
Kinda like a BBC historical drama.
You know, when men were men, and women were … oh, wait.
Sorry, never mind.
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You can’t really place any significance on temporary ‘lakes’. They’ll be gone for another 50 years anon.
As for the greening, I wonder how much of that is natural and how much is the success (or otherwise) of the Great Green Wall project?
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It will surprise climate alarmists who have the Aristotlean view that the earth never changes naturally, but there is plenty of evidence of past permanent human occupation in the Sahara, e.g. rock carvings showing various grazing animals that used to live in the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_rock_art?wprov=sfla1
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I probably shouldn’t mention this – in case your version of Mr. Miliband [Bowen?] picks it up and thinks it’s another outlet for taxpayers’ money – but : –
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2024/met-office-launches-new-local-authority-climate-service
Headline –
“Met Office launches new Local Authority Climate Service
“New service provides Local Authorities crucial information on climate change in their area.”
They go on [this is from their Press Office, so almost certainly art students … ]:-
“The Met Office has today launched the Local Authority Climate Service, a tool that provides local authorities with easy access to tailored information on climate change, to support local climate change adaptation planning.
“It is clear that our climate is changing; underlying the natural variability we have in our weather across the UK is a continuing and increasing influence of human induced climate change which is shaping the weather we experience. Most notably we’re seeing more extreme heat and intense rainfall events, with impacts felt at the local level.
“To deal with this, local authorities are considering their resilience to our changing climate and how they need to adapt to the weather we experience. The Met Office has worked with Esri UK to build the new operational service to help local authorities visualise climate challenges, explore climate projections and communicate a climate story specific to their local areas.”
Usual mantra –
“It is clear that our climate is changing; underlying the natural variability we have in our weather across the UK is a continuing and increasing influence of human induced climate change”
Could mean a lot – or very little.
But it’s the Met Office!
Certainly, getting ESRI UK [a software outfit it seems] to help guide local authorities to think about resilience is good.
I just hope it’s not overpriced hype …
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Sounds like another white elephant – or do we have to use pink or purple or green so as not to upset delicate elephants in transition…
Today’s acronym: HICCUP
‘human induced climate change under pressure’
Smells like overpriced hype to me.
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The ever-expanding number of public servants must be kept occupied, in order to justify their extravagant salaries.
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Its a way to soak up the unemployable, like all Govt is!
The real question is, will ratepayers be given a vote on projects once they are planned??
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China $24Bn coal to oil project.
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1844342642819170323
Alternative to Bloomberg link.
https://www.mining.com/web/chinas-top-miner-to-spend-24-billion-on-coal-to-oil-project/
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China knows their future as the dominant superpower lies with access to inexpensive, reliable energy such as from coal, gas, nuclear and Tibetan and other hydro (real hydro, not energy sinks like SH2).
Only the gullible, stupid, self-destructive Western nations such as Australia are destroying their energy supplies. China is building them.
If there’s an honest US election and Donald Trump is allowed to win, he will liberate US energy supplies and with other pro-freedom policies will Make America Great Again, reverse the US decline and some of the smarter Western nations might follow him (but probably not Australia).
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Interesting to note that the US is now the largest oil producer in the world ATM which of course goes back to Trump’s policies.
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It’s is often stated how many jobs “green” projects generate.
They might generate jobs but that’s because green energy is low density, diffuse and random and thus needs a lot of expensive infrastructure to collect a small amount of “stuff”. Building and maintaining such infrastructure is labour intensive.
It’s like saying horse-based transportation creates a lot of jobs compared to cars because a lot of people are employed as stable hands, picking up manure, etc..
There’s a lot of “employment” in “green” subsidy projects but they are not an efficient utilisation of labour resources which would better be used doing more productive, modern things. A real coal, gas, nuclear or hydro power station is run with relatively few people. Green employment is artificial “make work” on useless and destructive projects only.
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It’s pretty undeniable that green destroys more jobs than it creates.
The latest on the supposed green reinvention of the remaining scraps of UK steel?
“With the closing down of the blast furnaces, a country with the highest costs of industrial electricity in the world was never going to compete using EAFs, so Mr Miliband’s “decarbonising” of the steel industry is simply hastening the demise. “Green” steel is a non-starter in the UK, and always has been.”
https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/net-zero-its-a-steel/
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Extremely strong geomagnetic storm. Huge jump in solar wind speed of up to 850 km/s in an extremely short period of time.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
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Did anyone see an Aurora last night?
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Pro-science, non-woke geologist Prof. Ian Plimer is asked by Sky News Australia to comment on two issues.
1) A woke demand for a street name change.
2) The supposed unprecedented Hurricane Milton, blamed on “climate change (TM)” but evidence shows there are fewer and less destructive hurricanes than back in the day, despite much higher populations
https://youtu.be/IbCkCk0ViaQ
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This comment from WUWT
There’s a very, very strong case that the green lunacy in the UK should in the first instance be paid for by bankrupting every single member of the Labour Party, the Green Party, every single green energy lobbyist, all the Just Stop Oil lunatics, all the Extinction Rebellion nutcases.
Take all their assets, all their pensions, all their inheritances and all their salaries to pay for their nonsense.
No complaints from them are allowable.
They want the nonsense, they pay for it.
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If only these destroyers of Civilisation could be held legally accountable for their evil.
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FWIW
“The scariest graphic I’ve seen in a long time”
The US debt situation
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6vXwVk8J9BftUZGoB-YIcTkwfL7FRhSdm_q2ULnrVdd0G3eexv7FePA7Kj4Z-EeXhCEjCaDbncXO7bGpphgPBmAw3J2IIKaUmGr2AMYpzll4Si33-lV1pSgMZAelLqvVEAVqB3dw2yMAZrthUJViQk6PoQycIBNmPubgXBIKsxpe3TmPXm-y4SjeYEQ/w400-h286/Trillions%20of%20US%20debt.png
“The slope is inexorably rising, and the time taken to spend each trillion (that we haven’t got, but have to borrow) is growing shorter and shorter. It’s completely unsustainable. Sooner or later (and my bet’s on sooner), lenders and investors will refuse to fund such profligate expenditure – and then where will we be?”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-scariest-graphic-ive-seen-in-long.html
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Two issues on this lovely sunny Friday morn:
D’Fence Minister Judith ‘Crusher’ Collins is very upset at ‘armchair admirals’ posting misogynistic comments about Commander Y Gray’s ‘gender’, especially some bloke from Melbourne who is a truck-driver [that wasn’t you was it David?].
As we all know, truck drivers know nuffink about gender (can we put this under ‘misinformation’?) nor how to navigate large vehicles in difficult shituations. Presumably Ms Collins had her staff members snoop around McFarcebook looking for un-navy-like anti-tick of approval comments by XY [male] foreigners.
Secondly, did Florida tip over, or did Milton fall apart (5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ex-hurricane) on its way to the UK? Some models have the remnants of ex-Milton drifting northeast to combine with a North Atlantic low before arriving on once-Great Britain’s southwestern shores. Remember those fateful words from 1989: England doesn’t have hurricanes…
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FWIW – More covid “Safe and effective”
“We now have a proper conspiracy.”
The time line
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843850212713890045.html
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/10/10/one-flu-out-of-the-wuhan-nest-118/
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