Natural climate variability, as seen in the paleoclimate record of the stable Holocene (e.g. below), can be extreme. Throw climate change unprecedented in millions of years on top of that and we're going to see some changes in the decades to come that will be fairly unimaginable

Peter🌲Brannen

@peterbrannen1 · Twitter · 2021-06-10 18:14 UTC

800 years ago the West was stricken with a mega-drought, like it is today. As a result, huge swathes of the Sand Hills of Nebraska weren't grass-covered hills and wetlands, like today, but were instead mobile, Sahara-style sand dunes--the largest in the Western Hemisphere