Climate Change and the Biblical Trifecta of Floods, Droughts, and now...Locusts?

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On the Horizon, a Dreaded Wave of Locusts

"The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warns that large swarms of locusts are forming in Africa’s Sahel region and are likely to push northward to Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Mauritania once they take flight. The origins of the threat probably date back to a year ago, when rains drew in a wisp of desert locusts to Libya and Algeria, said Keith Cressman, the senior locust forecasting officer for the F.A.O. The dreaded desert locust consumes more than its own weight in vegetation each day.

The swarm is thought to have originated in the Libyan conflict zone, where obstacles to monitoring allowed a fast-breeding population to double up and form two generations, which then settled and laid eggs in countries to the south, he said in an interview.

Now, with an unusually lush moist summer just past, another two succeeding generations are forming in Mali — where monitoring is also hampered, by an Islamist uprising — and will soon form in Chad and Niger, the organization said. From there, they are expected to head north to greener pastures, posing a major threat to harvests and food security."

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/on-the-horizon-a-dreaded-wave-of-locusts/

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1. how nice of the biblical god to send us all these awful things in his name nt