How will climate change affect the world? Well, take a look at Saudi Arabia, which is now largely covered with sand dunes, but was once a lush green environment filled with rivers and lakes…12,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene.  By the way, 12,000 years ago, most of Utah was covered by Lake Bonneville, one of the largest lakes in the world at the time.

Arabia

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/heritage/when-arabia-was-green-lush-grasslands-helped-early-man-make-leap-out-of-africa?hootPostID=eb946dd2a10a11e6f55d7c609296785f