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Topic: A little grass to stop hurricanes?
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Jughead
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posted 10 September 2004 10:24 PM
Yeah, I thought about the whole typhoon thing, but then again, the Pacific is so much bigger a breeding ground than that little strip of Atlantic between the Americas and Africa. I'm not talking about deforestation in the sense of slash and burn farmers in indonesia (though maybe I am, just further back). I think the desertification of Africa must have started in the tens of thousands of years ago (though possibly coinciding with human activity).I agree that climate prediction is tricky, but I wouldn't mind seeing some modeling of what would happen if there were grasslands or forests throughout these parts of africa. (Of course, who's to say whether it would be possible to reverse the process, what the impact would be on ecology, culture, etc...) In my dream world there would be a series of tidal energy plants along the west African coast generating electricity to desalinate water which would be pumped inland and used to irrigate grasslands and forests for say, 20-30 years, until they had established themselves and water had accumulated in lakes and streams and greenery and other reservoirs and the whole system became free-standing. Easy breezy japaneesy.
From: uhuh | Registered: Apr 2004
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