Because there are apparently many geographic experts. How to make the sahara to fertile plains?

>because there are many experts, how to make this thread Veeky Forums related?

Building some of these powered by wind or solar would be a start.

Had there been much humidity in the air to go around then the place wouldn't have been a desert to begin with.

Everybody link to this fag and laugh at him.

Speculate on the effects on a fantasy race living in a saharan climate suddenly having fertile land to work?

suddenly a barbarian culture disappears when they realise they can grow their own crops?

There are ones that can work in desert conditions, just not nearly as well. You need a lot more electricity.

>Great Man-Made River

What if we used something like that but in reverse? Draw salt water from the ocean inland and distill it with sunlight. You could use mirrors or greenhouses to heat it.
Hell, if we're at the point of mega engineering projects already why not link them up with Solar updraft towers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower

And then as you use them to draw the humidity out of the air in sufficient quantities to water a decent bit of land, you're now left with dryer air, meaning even less precipitation, and greater evaporation.

This is a good thread. I like you people.

Or we could get a spacetime messiah and take over the oil reserves. Much faster.

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This. The Sahara was a fertile savannah for thousands of years before switching back. If you look at the rocks there, you've got distinct layers for the desert periods and the fertile periods. It's been alternating for millions of years. Some say that migration east to escape the encroaching desertification kickstarted the first civilizations in Egypt as the region had to adapt to high population density and waves of migration and disruption.

So really just move the timeframe of your campaign a little and it'll be a nice fertile plain. It's really just a matter of a little global climate change shifting the prevailing winds a bit.

Central Australia is in much the same situation.

Climate is always changing, and a small perturbation can trigger some pretty far-reaching effects. (And therefore obviously big change is inevitable regardless of what causes it. To me it seems more logical to just live with it and adapt to the changes that come, as they come.)

Flood it like pic indicates.

Then watch as you fuck up the entire Amazon florest.

nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-s-plants/

>Wanting more black people and angry Muslims

>Dam on the Sea of Marmarma
So how do ships enter and exit the Black Sea?

A global cold period. Preferably an ice age.

There is no way this plan can fail horribly.

dig a hole and bury the sand

Besides dooming the Amazon Rainforest and rewriting geopolitical frontiers on three continents?

If their land if fertile, they'll have less reason to leave it and come here.

They don't, because fuck Russia and every other country bordering it.

told me to laugh at you, so HAHAHA

Chop down the Amazon rainforest in South America

Make the worlds largest reservoir in the middle and flood it, turning it into a giant sea, the atlas mountains are now catching of shore clouds and forming new snow run off rivers and lakes in the north Sahara returning to a state that has not been seen since the bronze age.

also you fucked up the modern Atlantic and probably ruined thousands of ecosystems

Dig.

No, I'm not shitting you, there is a lot of water underneath.

The shit are you using this info for?

>when OP decides the Sahara needs to be made great again

>no one ever said the blacks and muslims got to keep that land once it becomes actually worth a shit

Africa previously had several huge "paleolakes" or seas during the last ice age and even earlier.

It's been claimed - claimed, mind you - that if the Congo is dammed near Stanley Pool, an inland sea covering much of the Congo basin will be created. Once that sea reaches a certain size, the flow of the Ubangi will reverese to the north and Lake Chad will fill to it Ice age size. Once large enough, Lake Chad too will outflow to the north and create a river which empties into the Med.