Like the Christian missionaries of old, Justin Rowlatt journeys to the benighted ‘Dark’ Continent to bring glad tidings of green salvation to endemic problems of constant warfare and poverty. Climate change is “turbo-charging” problems in Somalia, but there is hope in harnessing the bountiful breezes and sun beams, the BBC’s High Priest of Climate Alarm reports. Somalia is not always an easy place in which to live, but as usual with the neo-missionaries of Gaia worship the state-funded saviour of souls confuses individual weather events with long-term climate changes. His message of a changing climate bringing woe and misfortune might collect more believers if the five-year average temperature in the country in 2022 was not almost the same as that recorded in 1922 – 26.98°C compared to 26.92°C. No change there to worry about – or in the amount of rainfall, since the 1991-2020 period was more or less the same as that recorded 100 years ago.
If rising temperatures are your thing, Somalia is probably the worst country you could pick to peddle an existential climate crisis, as the World Bank graph above shows. Along with static precipitation, a current average 277.8 mm per year compared to 271.1 mm between 1901-1930, the country can hardly be said to have a turbo-charged changing climate – stationary climate might be a better description.
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