http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/17/west-africa-is-prone-to-mega-droughts-but-people-arent-prepared/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:55:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/17/west-africa-is-prone-to-mega-droughts-but-people-arent-prepared/comment-page-1/#comment-24232 Fester Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:28:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/17/west-africa-is-prone-to-mega-droughts-but-people-arent-prepared/#comment-24232 yeah Lurch, and what's with the 'african weather is the least studied globally'? How do we track our regions weather/currents without taking Africa into account? Its not like butterfly wings. yeah Lurch, and what’s with the ‘african weather is the least studied globally’? How do we track our regions weather/currents without taking Africa into account? Its not like butterfly wings.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/17/west-africa-is-prone-to-mega-droughts-but-people-arent-prepared/comment-page-1/#comment-24149 YouRang Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:14:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/17/west-africa-is-prone-to-mega-droughts-but-people-arent-prepared/#comment-24149 Wait a minute. The Sahel can't support a forest in good years; how in the heck did it support a forest in a drought century? I would suggest that they look for signs of irrigation taking the water away during one of the rises of one of the civilizations; but they seem to have looked at isotopes. Wait a minute. The Sahel can’t support a forest in good years; how in the heck did it support a forest in a drought century? I would suggest that they look for signs of irrigation taking the water away during one of the rises of one of the civilizations; but they seem to have looked at isotopes.

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