"If correct, the theory would explain how the deep interiors of forested continents get as much rain as the coast, and how most of Australia turned from forest to desert…."

"…Australia once had forests but is now largely desert. Gorshkov and Makarieva argue that Aborigines burning coastal forests may have switched the continent from wet to dry by shutting down its biotic pump."

You know that has to be the greatest load of BS I have read. So now they blame the aboriginals.

How many thousands of years ago would that be? How many millions of years ago would it have been that inland Australia was forested like the Amazon? How many millions of native aboriginal dwellers would it have taken to make Australia's inland red?

You know why they get rainfall at the top end, it's called the Monsoon season. It is what happens in this country climatically.

So have a go, get off your bums, revegetate the middle of Oz, see how far you get without water. The farmers will tell you.

Have you wondered why there is a salt lake out there?