Because there are apparently many geographic experts. How to

>>52534954
At this point?
Fresh water irrigation and centuries worth of uninterrupted ecological development.
Or cut the circumstances that made it a desert in the first place. There was a point where it was a fertile plain.

Level off the Atlas mountains, move Europe and the middle east 2000km north, and maybe fiddle a bit with the Earth's rotational speed.

>>52534954
Move africa a few thousand miles south or north

>>52534954
Get rid of the Himalayas.

>>52534954
Magic

Take the sand and put it somewhere else.

>>52534954
To start, construct windtraps to gather moisture into underground collection facilites. With that water, we can change the face of the Sahara.

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Go back 125k years in time, to the previous interglacial right before the last ice age, for some mad savannas.

Or just have an alternate history Gaddafi who's super competent and expands the Great Man-Made River so that North Africa can flourish again in the future.

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>>52534954
Not a whole lot to be done about this I think.

>>52534954
>because there are many experts, how to make this thread /tg/ related?

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

>>52535309
Had there been much humidity in the air to go around then the place wouldn't have been a desert to begin with.

>>52535269
Everybody link to this fag and laugh at him.

>>52535269
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?

>>52535351
There are ones that can work in desert conditions, just not nearly as well. You need a lot more electricity.

>>52535223
>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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower

>>52535770
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.

>>52535207
Or we could get a spacetime messiah and take over the oil reserves. Much faster.

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>>52535207

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>>52535386
>link

>>52535223

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.)

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>>52534954
Flood it like pic indicates.

Then watch as you fuck up the entire Amazon florest.

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

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>>52534954
>Wanting more black people and angry Muslims

>>52537740
>Dam on the Sea of Marmarma
So how do ships enter and exit the Black Sea?

>>52534954
A global cold period. Preferably an ice age.

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>>52537740
There is no way this plan can fail horribly.

>>52535115

dig a hole and bury the sand

>>52539125
Besides dooming the Amazon Rainforest and rewriting geopolitical frontiers on three continents?

>>52537772

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

>>52537829

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

>>52535269
>>52535386 told me to laugh at you, so HAHAHA

>>52534954
Chop down the Amazon rainforest in South America

>>52534954
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

>>52534954
Dig.

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

The shit are you using this info for?

>>52534954
>when OP decides the Sahara needs to be made great again

>>52537772
>no one ever said the blacks and muslims got to keep that land once it becomes actually worth a shit

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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.