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Re:How Long Was Venus Habitable? by funnybeam on Sunday May 10, 2020 @07:15AM (#23131767)
Or maybe not. Turning the Sahara into a forest would have a massive climate impact.

I am not a climate scientist but I’d imagine there would be significant changes to rainfall patterns over most of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Edit - sorry, reply was meant to be to parent

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Re:How Long Was Venus Habitable? by ptsneves on Sunday May 10, 2020 @07:33AM (#23131849)
There is a nice article about some paper modeling the climate if all the Sahara was covered with solar panels and wind turbines.The temperature on the Sahara would actually increase on average.rain would also

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/carpeting-sahara-wit...

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Re:How Long Was Venus Habitable? by pinkfoot on Sunday May 10, 2020 @07:17AM (#23131776)
A fair amount of the phosphorus in the Amazon comes from dust storms originating in the Sahara.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...

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Re:How Long Was Venus Habitable? by arcadeparade on Sunday May 10, 2020 @08:57AM (#23132257)
given that the Sahara is only a couple thousand years old does that mean the amazon is just as young?
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Re:How Long Was Venus Habitable? by macintux on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:41AM (#23132961)
An interesting article on how people shaped the Amazon.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-...

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Re:How Long Was Venus Habitable? by thaumasiotes on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:56PM (#23138163)
The Amazon is much younger; much of what is jungle today wasn't before the Columbian Exchange.

There is a theory that American reforestation was responsible for the Little Ice Age.

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Re:How Long Was Venus Habitable? by pinkfoot on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:42AM (#23132503)
Very good question.
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