Climate change brings rain to Africa

Climate change is bringing rain back to the region that has been suffering from severe drought for decades in Africa. However, scientists are also not optimistic when warning greenhouse gases can disturb the natural climate system on the planet.

Climate change brings rain back to Africa

The research team at the University of Reading (UK) has shown that increasing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, causing climate change, will pull seasonal rains back to the Sahel region, the contiguous region. between the Sahara desert in northern Africa and the fertile south.

Sahara Desert in Africa - (Photo: AFP)

Scientists have analyzed the increase in rainfall in this region since the 1980s to the present. They found that three-quarters of the increase in rainfall was due to increased levels of greenhouse gases.

"This shows that climate change can have a significant impact on many countries and regions, in much more complex ways than simple insights into global warming, " said Rowan Sutton, professor The head of the study said.

" What is special is that we have gradually figured out how climate change affects rainfall. What we are studying shows that human activity is highly influential ," Sutton added.

A woman in northern Kenya is going to a food distribution center after the drought in 2005 - (Photo: Reuters)

Although global warming is benefiting Africa, scientists warn it is impossible to anticipate the effects of climate change if greenhouse gas emissions continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.

"The short-term positive effects are random occurrences, no one intentionally brings them. However, such big changes suggest that if we continue to emit greenhouse gas emissions it will disturb us. Serious mixing of natural climate systems, " said Professor Sutton.

In the 1970s and 80s of the last century, a prolonged drought caused terrible famine , killing more than 100,000 people in many African countries, one of the most affected countries was Ethiopia.