Comment Re:Fairly recent study (Score 1) 196
I am an American but live in Africa so I recognize I may be a bit touchy on this but I don't think that is the only reason for my frustrations here. It is wordplay like yours that falls firmly into the plausibly deniable version of deceptive messaging.
Whomever "notrickszone.com" is, it is patently deceptive to equate an 8% increase in woody plant encroachment across ALL of Sub-Saharan Africa with an 8% decrease in the size of the Sahara Desert. Sub-Saharan Africa is the entire continent south of the Sahara Desert. It includes South Africa (a country with massive cities at elevations higher than Denver, including snowfall), the Democratic Republic of Congo, a massive rainforest, Botswana a country with the largest inland delta in the world, and much, much, more. These nations and geographies share a continent with the Sahara Desert but nothing else.
Please don't lie about this anymore.