• EleventhHour
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    1013 hours ago

    Was that area a desert 250,000 years ago?

    • @ladicius
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      1513 hours ago

      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]
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        12 hours ago

        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.

        • @dustyData
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          412 hours ago

          Your ape’s first anthropogenic climate disaster.

            • @[email protected]
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              112 hours ago

              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]
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                611 hours ago

                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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 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.

    • @TankovayaDiviziya
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      513 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.