Why Are Forests Growing in the Sahara Desert?

[@GiganticVentures]

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[@ZebraAfrica]

Great presentation, thank you for the presentation of the greening of the Sahara, and it's history, up to 8000 years ago. CO2 in the air is very import for plants, while the world is panicking about the increase, during the dinosaur period, CO2 was 20 times higher than today. 90% of the todays plant species are experiencing a CO2 drought, let that thought sink in.

[@GiganticVentures]

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[@tibetloga]

When you reach a certain elevation, nothing grows. This is called the treeline, and it's caused by the air not having enough CO2 to support photosynthesis. If humans weren't digging up all that carbon and returning it to the atmosphere, within 10 million years from now, the treeline would have reached sea level. The land would be mostly dead. Try telling that to one of the "we're all going to die in 10 years because of the CO2 devil" cultists.

[@jamesfairmind2247]

Well said. The ignorance and brainwashing is simply staggering.

[@davidhussell8581]

Most green plants, including crops, benefit from increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. This is why commercial growers, using poly-tunnels, release CO2 from cylinders into their enclosed atmospheres. Fortunately our industrial processes have slightly raised the atmosphere's CO2 content. This allows the plants to reduce the number of stomata (tiny holes on the underside of leaves) through which they collect the gas, CO2, vital for their functions. Now they also lose water through these same holes (evaporated-transpiration). So fewer stomata allows these plants, enjoying a slightly CO2 enriched atmosphere, to also retain, conserve, water better. Therefore they can live, grow and thrive in dryer conditions. This is a significant part of the complex group of factors facilitating the greening of the semi-arid areas like the Sahel and parts of Western Australia. All this is very good news !

[@AR-rf9hc]

So co2 increase is beneficial? Global warming is just a hoax?

[@rodkeh]

All right smack on except that commercial greenhouses around the world use dedicated fossil fuel burning boilers to produce CO2 to feed their crops!

[@johnliberty3647]

But if we put a carbon tax on poor people we can make the weather gooder

[@johnwilliams3555]

I think it may be the other way around. Many countries on the Sahel have been actively 'greening' the land and doing desert reclamation for decades.

[@landofstan246]

The battle between reality and dogma continues.

[@clydeotienootieno1711]

We must protect and conserve Mother nature EARTH 🌍 I’m from Kenya 🇰🇪 Nairobi teddy katalunya ziwani buru emba

[@1stcSOLDIER]

I agree, protect the planet’s natural environment. Old-growth Forests everywhere would be amazing! I’m from Canada 🍁

[@FirstNameLastName-m3e]

Katakunya? Isn't that in Spain?

[@clydeotienootieno1711]

@ I’m from Kenya Nairobi teddy katalunya ziwani buru emba

[@FirstNameLastName-m3e]

@clydeotienootieno1711 Yes, I get it, I just didn't expect to see the last name ' katalunya', which is a region of Spain, in someone from Kenya.

[@guerillagardener2237]

So if the cycle is a long process to become desert, the process to reforest is long, and we might just be seeing the start.

[@1stcSOLDIER]

Well desertification can be accelerated while forests grow slowly.

[@wildalentejo]

The Sahara Desert plays a crucial role in Earth's ecosystems and climate systems.

[@thor.halsli]

It also fertilize the Amazon in South America

[@billstream1974]

7000 years ago it was a Savanna.

[@GordoGambler]

And also the Arctic was MELTED in summer because the Earth was at max TILT. Trees was growing 90 miles farther north than now.

[@Filodendro]

If the Sahara starts having forests, most of Amazon rainforest will disappear.

[@denisehill1215]

Trees need to be planted there

[@halnelson5936]

That's not true at all. Some guys told that sahara have a role in nuclear condensation but the trees of the amzon are creating these ones as well and are creating their own rain and making biotic pomp.

[@waylandforge8704]

I am both very impressed and very grateful for your presentation. Your balanced assessment of so many factory both natural and human induced is gratifying, not to mention the underlying positive message you've conveyed so successfully. You've done a good job and done it well and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[@shockcat5988]

Fascinatingly enough there was alternative theories andspeculation that there may have been a pre-10,000 year civilization in this region.

[@mike1117777]

If only you could have said CO2 to start with, you would have been honest.

[@rodkeh]

It is the same reason the whole world is greening! More atmospheric CO2, thanks to the burning of fossil fuels! CO2 is a blessing and fossil fuels are a gift from God!

[@Farjah-q5p]

Which God? Where is he/she manufacturing fossil fuels in the depths of the earth. How come he never mentioned this fact to all those crazy ass middle east prophets who talked to him regularly.

[@timetherington-judge3719]

Utter nonsense. Are you being paid by Exxon Mobil? Climate change has shifted weather patterns and there's more reason falling on the Sahara. Watch the video and find out the truth.

[@walkaway6777]

interesting insight!😂🎉

[@rodkeh]

@@walkaway6777 Simple documented facts...

[@tringuyen7519]

CO2 may great for the Sahara. But it may be very bad for Americans living on the eastern coastline! Warmer seas means more intense hurricanes!

[@patbaptiste9510]

Because the *VIBRATION* of the planet has increased, due to the raising of the collective consciousness.

[@JohnSmall314]

No, there's nothing mystical about this. It's due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which traps heat close to the Earth's surface. This has been known about since the middle of the 1800's and at the end of the 1800's scientists had worked out that burning fossil fuel will increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and make the world warm up. When the world warms up more water evaporates from the sea, and that has to come down somewhere, which means rainfall increases in some places and reduces in others. Saying this is due to the increased vibration of the planet is like saying a kettle boils water due to increase vibration. Well, yes in the sense that increased heat is increased vibration, but that has nothing to do with consciousness. It's just simple physics. In a hotter world more water evaporates from the sea, so more rain falls on land. It really is that simple.

[@oakbellUK]

Please. If you are going to make a video about the Sahara, don't give incorrect information in the first sentence. The Sahara is NOT mostly made of sand dunes (Erg)! They are relatively rare. Much of the desert is 'Hamada'. A rocky or stony surface from which most of the sand has blown away (to the Erg or the Atlantic).

[@DonMcHattie]

The Burlke Comet impact was about 5000 years ago.

[@RickMason-yj7pv]

Reverse Dust Bowl. Humans overworked the land and Nature threw in a few surprises.

[@AngelineThompson-x4k]

Water has seeds Must of took the trees apart to tiny seeds a landed there So awesome the way god surfs Amen

[@SOCORROGM]

Good 😊

[@GiganticVentures]

Thanks!

[@Apollyon-er4ut]

Most of our history as a planet had much higher CO2 levels which meant much greener planet overall. Yes, it effects other places differently, but it was a net positive for the planet.

[@ezraepizon5303]

Funny how climate was changing well before Landrovers.

[@reypogi6934]

The more abundant CO2 supply, the less time the stomata of plants are open; lessening the need for water. Add the Saharan sun to that and we have ourselves a missing desert.

[@duanenavarre7234]

mini-swales are doing rain catchment, if lined with clay they will hold water longer. more capture of flooding events will provide water for dry season, India has been doing many large scale projects in this regard. This could be scaled up til aquaculture can happen and Africa filled with life again. duckweed can be feed to fish and livestock and start abundance.

[@halnelson5936]

Still before 4000 years it was greener than now. It was however more like savannah not tropical forest. Sahara is greening when the climate is warming and turns to dry desert when the climate is cooling down. You haven't said that it's also because this warming lead to more evaporation of the ocean and more rain. People in Sahel and Sahara should prepare by planting trees and plants on the mountains tops and high grounds in order to activate the slopes and valleys to greening and make water catchement and harvesting. All that is crucial for reforestation and health of the landscapes and soils because at the beginning more rainfall meant more erosion and flooding on bare and dry soils. So these good land management practices will reduce and mitigate the bad phenomenons and accompany the changes for the best. I would suggest that the green great wall will be made also from Morocco to Senegal by beginning from the coast with mangroves maybe and other salt resistant species than other adpated species toward the inner lands in order to provoke biotic pomp and increase rainfall in all the Sahara region and the Sahel at the same time thank to vegetation.

[@zarroth]

you know what else has helped? increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere. 30+ years ago, we were at such a low level that plant life was close to going extinct. Now we're at double that level and suddenly greening projects are taking off successfully after over a century of failing using the same techniques. Fossil record shows our CO2 level should be 10x higher than it is today, or more. It should be 4000 to 6000 parts per million, we're at 450. THIS is all tied together. Don't let the "experts", who are paid to toe the political narrative line, fool you. The data is out there if you just look for it.

[@keepitreal2902]

Go learn some science FFS

[@johnl5316]

5:40 We want the CO2 since it helps with greening (according to NASA)

[@ramborambo2072]

Less co2 cause more deserts and plant stress

[@danielhanawalt4998]

Co2 is essential for most life on earth the thrive. If the level of Co2 drops too much plants begin to die. Greenhouses add extra Co2 which helps plants grow bigger and better. Other greenhouse gases contribute to climate change at least as much as Co2. Water vapor, nitrogen, methane are greenhouse gases. Many other things are involved in climate change.

[@efranlaboy554]

In the next few thousand years the dessert will be covered with green . The climate is cyclical they're ice age and warm periods no one else can do anything else

[@arianbyw3819]

There were trees before there was desert.

[@HeinzBuchler-vg9dx]

What does Sahara mean ? Why Sahara desert ?

[@vern146]

Free Hat

[@listenup2882]

De-certification.

[@Agapimo]

😂It was ANNOYING AF✅

[@briancooper562]

Others have suggested the initial transform of the Sahara to desert was a doubling of the tilt angle of the earth over only 200 years In recent times the magnetic axis of the earth has been seen to move from North America toward the east. So what is moving? The map of the world is man made for convenience. The magnetic axis I would suggest aligns with both the Earth mass center of spin axis and is influenced by the solar system EM axes. So if the earth tilt is moving then Sahara conditions may be heading back to previous conditions. The past year has seen rainfall increase in this area though one storm does not make a summer. Are there past cycles (7000+ year) to give a basis?

[@slidethru468]

IT'S BECAUSE THE EARTH'S POLES ARE GOING TO FLIP. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN HAPPENING WHEN THE POLES WERE FORMED

[@mobrule8219]

A basic understanding of physics reveals the physical poles never flip. Conservation of energy, conservation of momentum. Issac Newton

[@TRASHORPASS]

Jesus is coming the true God thats why

[@BahDuest]

No it's going back to it's natural form! No such thing as a sub shara African Egypt😂

[@raytempus4212]

Wrong. You shouldn’t do this. You have to understand the earth’s procession. You don’t. U dummmm

[@MrAbbas16]

Muslims know, have known, that this was coming.

[@vern146]

like the twin towers ?

[@libbyrafferty3759]

😂😂😂

[@JAG8691]

@@vern146 The Dancing Israelis also knew.

[@GordoGambler]

Their stupid camels are eating EVERYTHING.