floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoDramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a centurywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkDramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a centurywww.theguardian.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square1fedilink
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month ago More than year’s worth of rain fell in two days in south-east Morocco, filling up lake that had been dry for decades. Inb4 reactionaries use this to pivot on climate change denialism rhetoric with all the subtlety and coherence of whether we’re at war with Eastasia. “Climate change isn’t real” to “Climate change isn’t that big a deal” to “Climate change isn’t manmade” (you’re kind of here now, but the idiots are collectively still catching up) to “Climate change is good, actually, because the deserts are thirsty.”
Inb4 reactionaries use this to pivot on climate change denialism rhetoric with all the subtlety and coherence of whether we’re at war with Eastasia.