With global warming and reduced ice in the poles are the deserts going to survive.
I know everyone is talking about change and there are lots of conferences about it where everyone flies in instead of video but little action
I would not like to try and predict. Australia seems to be getting wetter ( more rainfall). That would help our dry continent.
There is a theory from the soil scientists that sandy deserts like the sahara were either caused or made to spread , by poorly managed agriculture.
I have witnessed the spreading effect of sand moved by wind… I have a picture somewhere of fence posts being buried by sand.
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The story goes that the yellow sand in the canaries came from north africa carried by the wind to form the sand dunes at maspalomas in grand canary but i very much doubt that.
More likely carried by the sea.
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I agree but think a lot was carried by boat and then trucks to form some of them
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Little known fact - Australia exports sand, and camels - to the Middle East 
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A bit like taking coals to Newcastle?
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My hometown - I like how that applies equally to either Newcastle, i.e. NSW or on Tyne…
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No more. The UK has run out of coal, and our Hunter Region is going nuclear.
The next generation will not understand “coals to Newcastle”
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How true,
Taking laptops to silicon valley … does not have the same ring
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