Suuure. I’ve played this game enough to know that it doesn’t matter what decision you make, someone is going to be loudly unhappy. This is always the case; it’s not a game you can win by appealing to the true will of the shitposters, because that doesn’t exist.

Love has nothing to do with it. Some people enjoy conflict.

Downvote away, my sparkly sluts.

Yeah, I don’t expect anything to single-handedly solve the problem.

Ah yes, people roasting volunteer mods about a thing they could easily ignore. We’re encroaching more and more on Reddit’s turf every day.

MSN is cancerous and was barely usable the last few times I’ve been bamboozled into going there. Yahoo is the same, just easier to avoid. I honestly haven’t run into the Google one.

They literally add nothing to the internet as far as I can tell.

I mean, it’s a great argument for not going with actual fact checkers, unless you’re volunteering to pay.

Not having one is also an option, but for my 2 cents the bot seems accurate enough so far, and it’s easy enough to ignore if you really don’t like it.

I’d be more surprised if Trump didn’t get weird nuke ideas fairly shortly after getting access, actually.

Ah, a voracious terrestrial archosaur, as prompted. But what’s that in it’s beak?

Get out of here with that actual talent. /s

It doesn’t really apply here, but depending on how long the odds are, unironically yes. I believe in OP, they’re worth more than vein hopes.

Wow, I feel like I run into more familiar users than 50k would suggest. Like I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you around.

Hmm, so I’d guess maybe there’s a triplet on Lemmy?

You guys 'member agar.com? /s

I’m not making this up. It wasn’t caused by anthropogenic climate change before, obviously, but more than one thing can shift rains.

Sand is a kind of soil. Actually, besides possibly salinity, deserts tend to be pretty fertile once you add water, because evaporation concentrates things.

Fun fact, it never left. It’s been one of the most populous areas all along, and it’s still the third most populous country in Africa (after Nigeria and Ethiopia). It’s just that it’s not the only happening place anymore.

Yes.

IIRC in the green Sahara scenarios the arid band moves north into the Mediterranean, and so southern Europe and North Africa get messed up. On other continents, it’s already getting noticeably weird and dry where I am on the western great plains.

There’s still a lot of uncertainty about whether agriculture, for example, will benefit, worsen or break even due to climate change. Total global precipitation increases, but so does variability both through time and location, and then the heat and the CO2 itself has an effect. It’s all very complicated.

Also, isn’t one of the major reasons we have hurricanes in the first place due to Sahara seeding them? If less desert then…?

A good chunk of this current hurricane season just didn’t happen, and it was all down to unusual conditions in Africa. On the flip side, each hurricane will be more intense due to hotter seas (which, again, we’re probably seeing right now).

There’s a pattern here. A different climate isn’t bad, per se. It’s the rapid change to a different climate. This sort of thing is supposed to take hundreds of thousands of years, not a century or two. As a result we’re creating a mass extinction.

Hmm. Given how much it’s gone back and forth already, I wonder how much worse it would be this time. It is happening a lot faster.

It’s okay, the Amazon will die off from other things first. (/s but only on it being okay)

As far as the human food chain goes, a single round of fertiliser will easily match millennia of windblown desert dust.

During the ice age, the Sahara was savanna, and it’s though to be possible it could go back due to climate change.

That would be a nice silver lining on a mostly very bad mistake, I guess.

Speaking from the perspective of this side of the Atlantic, not all of them end up under a bridge. Few of them end up living the good life either, but if they work a menial job and can still send home remittances that’s a big step up for them.

I should be clear the research I’m thinking of is about drug cartels, so I’m not an expert either, but in what you’re describing it sounds like the smugglers get “a free lunch”, and there’s never a free lunch.