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[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Was that area a desert 250,000 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The whole continent of Africa (as every other continent) went through several major climate changes, small and big. Pretty sure there were at least five major turnovers from wet to dry climate and back since then, and numerous before.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Fun fact, there are some theories that the Sahara desert was actually caused by over foraging from early goat herding.

So to a degree our ancestors may have already caused some climate change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Your ape's first anthropogenic climate disaster.

[–] skittle07crusher 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Republicans and climate science deniers’ favorite fun fact

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wait... What?

[–] skittle07crusher 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Like when they say “cLiMaTe ChAnGe Is NoThInG NeW” and try to tell you “the climate has been changing for thousands of years”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh... Dang, I have never heard a climate denier even know about early farming practices in northern Africa to pull that one out and usually I get:

there is no way something as simple as a person or animal could have an impact on something as big as climate!

Wild. I didn't realize they were changing the cope, I guess I got to catch up on the patch notes.

[–] skittle07crusher 1 points 18 hours ago

I think they’re better at networking than the left. The moment there’s the slightest, most microscopically plausible counterpoint to something, it seems like they’re all bellowing it as if it’s the most obvious, incontrovertible thing on earth.

Then again I’m American where we seem to be especially in the dark on climate science.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

The North African region was a lush verdant region 11,000 years ago, which is not so long ago considering humans already spread far and wide around that time.