A devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, where tens of millions of people and animals have been pushed into starvation, would not have happened with out human-caused climate change’s influence. It’s reported that climate change has made the drought 100 times more likely, and it’s likely to happen again in the next decade. The area has suffered from drought conditions since the fall of 2020. While climate change has had only a minimal effect on rainfall, increased heat has forced more evaporation from plants and soils, drying them out. Parts of these countries, typically having two rainy seasons a year, have seen little to no rain for five consecutive seasons. Climate change has caused the “long rains,” which run between March to May, to become drier, while the “short rains,” typically running between October and December, have become wetter.
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