Uitbreiding Sahara is mythe

Vele soorten ellende in deze wereld worden toegeschreven aan de door de mens veroorzaakte opwarming van de aarde (die maar niet wil komen). Dat geldt ook voor de tranentrekkende uitbreiding van de Sahara. Maar ook dát blijkt een sprookje.

Onder de titel ,The “Ground Zero Of Climate Change” Is Becoming Green – Expanding Sahara Is A Myth', heeft de Duitse 'Der Spiegel' onlangs een artikel gepubliceerd, waarin wordt aangetoond dat de Sahara groener wordt.

Pierre Gosselin bericht daarover op zijn blog:

Climate change because of man is causing more death and drought – especially in Africa, so claim the “experts”. But what we have to remember is that many of these “experts are not reliable spend their time sitting in air conditioned offices in Zurich, London, or Manhattan and never really have gone out in the field and taken real scientific measurements. Many in fact just spew crap in the form of alarmist press releases to the gullible media.

Der Spiegel above brings a report on the Sahel Region of Africa, interviewing Dutch geographer Chris Reij of the University of Amsterdam. Reij says the opposite is occurring: the Sahara is shrinking. It is not expanding. Reij has been visiting and documenting “the greening of the Sahel Zone” for decades. According to Reij at the the 0:28 mark: The Sahara is not expanding. Sure there are still some areas of drought. But it is a popular myth that is gladly spread by the media that the Sahara is creeping southwards more and more every year. Also serious organizations claim this agaian and again. But it’s not true.”

As Der Spiegel shows at 0:58, trees are growing where 20 years ago there was only sand. And people are learning to manage the land and to reforest the area. “Here there’s more success than what people believe,” says Reij.

Der Spiegel concludes:

The Sahel zone is called the ground zero of climate change by UN officials. But now it’s getting green because of people on site have learned to help themselves.”

Thanks, Der Spiegel, for this bit of reality from Africa.

Lees en bekijk verder hier.

Chris Reij behaalt met minimale middelen maximale resultaten. Dat is de droom van elke econoom.

Meer over Chris Reij en zijn project is hier te vinden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EmrcPx36eU