Horn of Africa Drying Ever Faster as Climate Warms

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://uanews.org/story/horn-of-africa-drying-ever-faster-as-climate-warms

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Horn of Africa Drying Ever Faster as Climate Warms[/font]
[font size=4]The findings from a UA-led study suggest a worsening future for the conflict-troubled region, which includes Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia.[/font]

By Mari N. Jensen, UA College of Science, and Stacy Morford, Columbia University | October 9, 2015

[font size=3]The Horn of Africa has become increasingly arid in sync with the global and regional warming of the last century and at a rate unprecedented in the last 2,000 years, according to new research led by a University of Arizona geoscientist.

The region has suffered deadly droughts every few years in recent decades.

The scientists suggest as global and regional warming continues, the eastern Horn of Africa, which includes Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia, will receive progressively less rain during the crucial "long rains" season of March, April and May.

Such a trend could exacerbate tensions in one of the most geopolitically unstable regions in the world.

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http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/9/e1500682

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. UN population projections for the area, which don't take climate change into account

(and seem to think migration will tail off to almost nothing):
Somalia 2015: 11 million; 2095: 56 million
Ethiopia 2015: 99 million; 2095: 243 million