Horn of Africa sees 'worst drought in 60 years'

[JI7]

Source: bbc

Charity Save the Children says drought and war in Somalia has led to unprecedented numbers fleeing across the border into Kenya, with about 1,300 people arriving every day.

Three camps at Dadaab, just inside Kenya, are home to well over 350,000 people, but they were built to hold just 90,000 and are severely overcrowded.

While conflict has been a fact of life for them for years, it is the drought that has brought them to breaking point. Many have walked for days, are exhausted, in poor health, desperate for food and water.

Food prices have risen substantially across the region, pushing many moderately poor households over the edge.

The price of grain in affected areas in Kenya is 30-80% above average.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13944550

[Faygo Kid]

1. No, climate change isn't happening. Ignore the realities.

People will die. They are doing so in Somalia, and not just through violence.

[democratinnashville]

4. Climate Change

Every year here summers start earlier and get hotter and winters start earlier and get colder and snowier. The super-extreme tornadoes in Joplin and Alabama are just more proof. The fires in AZ, the extreme drought in TX...global warming is real and nobody is doing jack about it.

[defendandprotect]

8. Was listening to Joe Papantonio today for a few minutes ....

not sure who he was talking with but obviously someone very concerned about

Global Warming -- and he mentioned that the Ozone Layer is pretty much knocked

out now -- though we haven't had any news on it, as far as I can see?


From the last time I looked at it -- somewhere I have a link -- the "hole" is

determined when damage reaches over 50%/75% -- but evidently even back then the

damage was very, very high.


I'll look for the link -- and try to google something on the current situation.

Btw, planting HEMP would help this -- and we could use the oil vs ethanol --

it's green!

[Skink]

2. Mr. Horn meet Texas.

we really should work on cooling the planet.

[Gregorian]

3. Very possibly the result of global dimming.

From the link below-

"...the process of global dimming was linked very clearly to the famines in Ethiopia in the 1980s and the implication was left that worse was to come."

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/global-dimming/

[Hestia]

5. I'm fixin' to read your link, though I have read different articles - if it is dimming, doesn't that

throw out the TB excuse that it is Sol who is heating up the planet?

[Gregorian]

10. Global dimming is masking the full effects of global warming.

If we stop using fossil fuels, we're in for greatly increased global warming.

We're really in a far bigger mess than we realize. The carbon emissions haven't even presented their effects yet. Wait 20 years. I hope there's a mechanism we are not aware of yet that will absorb some of the mess.

In other news, it rained in California in June for the first time maybe ever. At least since they started taking records in 1849.

[Hestia]

6. Okay, forget Sol - wow, aerosols, interesting article. Read it!

[defendandprotect]

7. Global Warming is escalating because we're now at the point of about 1960 in

the damage we did to the planet with pollution from burning fossil fuels --

There was a 50 year delay in our feeling the effects of Global Warming, though

of course the glaciers were melting --

glaciers the size of Rhode Island -- and the latest, one the size of Manhattan, have

fallen!!

All of the chaotic weather will increase -- in number and in severity --

consider our activity after 1960 -- !!

[tabasco]

9. The bravest people I ever met in my life

were charity workers in Somalia.

I was an infantry officer in the Army and knew a lot of brave people, but none so brave as the workers in the HROs.