A rare deluge of rainfall has left lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert. Some regions are seeing more water than they had in decades.
the sahara turning fully green coululd actually be another lind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.
It’s actually not nice, not for local wildlife, for example. Biomes exist for a reason and if anything changes abruptly, evolution can’t keep up with these changes, resulting in extinction of several species. Just like flowers are blooming in Antarctica, a rainy and green Sahara is as beautiful as a rose with thorns under its petals: really beautiful, but ominously dangerous.
Serious questions here. The world, by design, has arid zones around the tropics. If we heat up the planet, does that mean deserts pop up in other places? Like, will the Sahara and Cape Town turn green, but Spain and Italy and Argentina turn to desert? And if that’s the case, will hurricanes more often frequent New England, but less frequent Florida? Also, isn’t one of the major reasons we have hurricanes in the first place due to Sahara seeding them? If less desert then…?
I don’t have a good answer to your question, but I do know lengthy droughts in certain areas are a likely fallout from climate change, so I’d say that would be a good possibility.
A green Sahara would be nice. Too bad it took a planet wide catastrophe to see it happen.
the sahara turning fully green coululd actually be another lind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/sahara-dust-atlantic/
It’s actually not nice, not for local wildlife, for example. Biomes exist for a reason and if anything changes abruptly, evolution can’t keep up with these changes, resulting in extinction of several species. Just like flowers are blooming in Antarctica, a rainy and green Sahara is as beautiful as a rose with thorns under its petals: really beautiful, but ominously dangerous.
That’s why I always dug quarantine tunnels in Terraria.
Serious questions here. The world, by design, has arid zones around the tropics. If we heat up the planet, does that mean deserts pop up in other places? Like, will the Sahara and Cape Town turn green, but Spain and Italy and Argentina turn to desert? And if that’s the case, will hurricanes more often frequent New England, but less frequent Florida? Also, isn’t one of the major reasons we have hurricanes in the first place due to Sahara seeding them? If less desert then…?
I don’t have a good answer to your question, but I do know lengthy droughts in certain areas are a likely fallout from climate change, so I’d say that would be a good possibility.