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hom-80	Naylor, Robert; Shaw, Eleanor	The 200-year Cycle: An Early Climate-based Reaction to the Crisis in the Sahel and its Uptake in 1973	2022	17	.pdf	application/pdf	9026	284	30	Western Sahel was formally colonised by France after the Berlin conference of 1884-1885, so there are substantial rainfall statistics for this region only since the beginning of the twentieth century (Fig. 1). Papers were distributed one week before the meeting, and Winstanley’s symposium paper at the time of submission did not include any explicit mention of the 200-year figure.56 However, the day before the conference began a version of Winstanley’s symposium paper was received by the journal Nature and was published in September, now including the 200-year figure prominently.57 According to Winstanley, the climate paper was fast tracked by Nature staff writer John Gribbin, who later released his own series of popular books on climate catastrophe.58 In the article, Winstanley intervened in the debates discussed at the symposium about the habitability of the Sahel, explicitly saying “massive international aid could be injected into Sahel states but this would destroy the nomadic way of life […] the natural solution would be for nomads to shift southwards with the rains but this would raise serious political problems”.59 Winstanley here made an implied prognosis about future rainfall in the region based on historical data.	cache/hom-80.pdf	txt/hom-80.txt