Monday, July 04, 2011

Bummer: Although the latest settled IPCC science predicted that CO2 would make the Horn of Africa wetter, CO2 is also blamed for the current prolonged drought there

Drought in east Africa the result of climate change and conflict | World news | The Guardian
Prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa is the immediate cause of the severe food crisis already affecting around 10 million people in parts of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia.
...The last intergovernment panel on climate change report suggested that the Horn of Africa would get wetter with climate change, while more recent academic research has concluded that global warming will increase drought in the region.

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