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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (330951)	9/18/2020 7:08:11 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362360

It says irrigating the Southern California scrub desert results in trees, vegetation, increased cloud cover and rain, which all lead to global cooling and CO2 sequestration. I think you were listening to a Trump speech instead of reading this. - nature.com As expected desert irrigation allows vegetation to grow, with bare soil or grass gradually becoming shrub or tree covered, with increases in terrestrial carbon storage of 90.3 Pg C (UVic-ESCM) – 143.9 Pg C (BNU-ESM). Irrigating global deserts makes the land surface temperature decrease by 0.48?°C and land precipitation increase by 100?mm yr-1. In the irrigated areas, BNU-ESM simulates significant cooling of up to 4.2?°C owing to the increases in low cloud and latent heat which counteract the warming effect due to decreased surface albedo. They suggest you could have created a similar effect by killing the existing plants and grasses in Southern California and painting Southern California with a highly reflective material. Sorry, no interest. You should obsess more about your own little life.