Africa on the brink of catastrophic change -- blame global warming

...or rather, an accurate article. not what I'd call "good". :(

the guy doing the writing is an innumerate idiot.

'The report, by Sir Nick Stern, head of Government Economic Policy, is due to be completed in October. The review is still in progress, but evidence given by the Hadley Center, one of Europe's leading research bodies on climate change, predicts an average rise in global temperatures of between 2.4°C (36.3°F) to 5.4°C (41.7°F).

'But for Africa temperature rises over many areas will be double the global average. Stern: "For example, under a high-emissions scenario, global temperatures will rise by over 4°C (39°F) by the 2080s, but according to some models temperatures in Africa could rise by up to 7°C (44.6°F) in southern Africa and 8°C (42.4°F) in northern Africa -- almost double the global average." '

The doofus took "2.4 C" and plugged it into a converter: he didn't come up with an interval (how many degrees F are 2.4 degrees C), he came up with what a temperature of 2.4 C would be in Fahrenheit. At least he kept making the same mistake.

On edit: He's even more of a doofus than I thought. Notice that if you double the average of 39 degrees F you get something on the order of 44 degrees F. (But that's assuming his impossible 8 degrees C is colder in Fahrenheit than 7 degrees C is right.) Must be that Valley math (up there with Valley speak).

I've read that the whole Mediterranean area is going through some kind of dry spell - large parts of Spain have a serious problem with desertification, even southern France and beautiful Provence - all at risk.

Now, the US is totally OK with this. In fact, if they could speed it up they would. Millions of Africans are seen as "unnecessary" in the upcoming Global Resource wars. A war that poor people will lose hands down.

Don't blame me for this; I just read it on www.fromthewilderness.com. Look under 'search'.

In fact the article says that US scientists are working with viruses to speed things up.

As the Sahara expands, there will be plenty of opportunity to install solar cells and solar thermal plants unobstructed by rain clouds and trees.

As for the 182 million people, at least you will be able to say that they will not die from plutonium poisoning. If you recall, 10 deaths from plutonium are easily worse than 182 million deaths from any other cause, because plutonium is spelled n-u-c-l-e-a-r. N-u-c-l-e-a-r starts with an "N," and so this would make things much worse.

It's not like the Sahara didn't used to be a verdant grassland 10,000 years ago.
Oh wait, yes it did.