Originally published at: Sky to dim as enormous Saharan dust cloud heads to US | Boing Boing
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this pleases me
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But should America really be bringing in its choking dust from dictatorships like Libya, when it has a perfectly good source of democratic particulates in northern Canada?
(I don’t know, that’s how people talk about oil.)
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Looks like it’s not going to get up here, though… mostly on the gulf coast… 
It’s gonna probably keep being hot as hell in the ATL…
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See, told ya, you nervous nellies! Climate change is nothing to worry about. The desertification will offset the volatile weather systems. Burn Baby, Burn!
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If it reduces hurricanes, they’ve probably already started on the plans to install a few really big fans…
Nope, too slow…
Oops!
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Exactly. Corporate America has no shame, now they’re even out-sourcing our particulate matter.
/s
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I find it bonkers that so much sand can be carried so far. The atmosphere is mind-boggling. And to think that it is all caused by some butterfly in China. 
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I would, too, if I hadn’t been there. The sand in the Sahara is not like what most of us think of as sand. It’s fine as flour. Or pollen.
I got trapped in a town in rural Tunisia on the edge of the desert for 3 or 4 days due to a really minor sandstorm because combustion engines just wouldn’t work. Everything was shut down.
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On Mars dust storms are the main form of weather
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