Faux Climate change causing China seas of desert sand to grow

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creating thousands of climate refugees

Deserts in China have expanded by 21,000 square miles since 1975. Our reporters visited the remote Tengger Desert to examine how climate change is uprooting the lives of the villagers there. Read their story and see the dramatic aerial images.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/24/world/asia/living-in-chinas-expanding-deserts.html?emc=edit_ta_20161024&nlid=50533710&ref=cta&_r=0

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1. Sand dunes are forming where I live in the Mojave Desert

One is about 4 miles from me. It just popped up about 20 years ago and is slowly growing. Some of it is due to overgrazing, but there's also the high winds, an increasingly drier, hotter climate, and less and less rainfall that means fewer plants to hold in the soil. There's another larger dunes area about 20 miles away that has taken over a couple of old ranches, burying the buildings, trees, the abandoned farm equipment, and roads. It looks very surreal out there, like old photos from the Dust Bowl era.

I've lived here a long time, and the climate if different now. It stays hotter for a longer time, and what little rain we get come less often and there is less of it. In winter we used to have sustained hard freezes and it would snow every year, every if it was only a couple of inches. Not so much anymore, and its probably been over 10 years since it snowed and freezing nights are becoming rare. Climate change is here,