Climate changes, it always does but at least before when this was explained we didn’t have the CO2 fairy sprinkling her narrative dust everywhere. As Paul writes:
We commonly hear that global warming is making droughts worse, but Bryson’s book is a reminder that the opposite is the case, with a chapter devoted to the terrible Sahel drought of the 1970s and 80s.
It is well worth a read, not just for its historical approach, but also for its clear analysis of why the droughts occurred
Indeed. Thanks for posting Paul.
By Paul Homewood
In 1977 Reid Bryson and Thomas Murray published Climate of Hunger, a book about changing climates:
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/114865
This of course was during an era of falling global temperatures, and Bryson’s introduction made clear about the effects:
We commonly hear that global warming is making droughts worse, but Bryson’s book is a reminder that the opposite is the case, with a chapter devoted to the terrible Sahel drought of the 1970s and 80s.
It is well worth a read, not just for its historical approach, but also for its clear analysis of why the droughts occurred:
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