Greening of the Sinai: A climatological, technological and political challenge

The idea

A greener and cooler Sinai can bring more moisture to the Sinai region influencing the larger weather systems in the Mediterranean realm.

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The weather makers

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DESERTEC

Sahara Forest Project

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Sinai green Guardian

Paleo evidences:

Paleo green Sinai

A generation of a regional monsoon-type circulation pattern over the southeast Mediterranean. Elevated land-sea temperature contrasts due to lower early-to mid-Holocene SSTs and to simultaneous insolation-induced higher land temperatures could have facilitated the inflow of moist air masses from the eastern Mediterranean to the surrounding land masses, penetrating south into the northern Red Sea region. This scenario is supported by pollen and lake-level data from the eastern Mediterranean, which likewise suggest that particularly summer rainfall increased during the early to mid-Holocene.

African humid period

References:

Arz, H. W., F. Lamy, J. Pätzold, P. J. Müller, and M. Prins (2003), Mediterranean moisture source for an Early Holocene humid period in the northern Red Sea, Science, 300, 118–121, doi:10.1126/science.1080325.

Pausata, Francesco S.R.; Gaetani, Marco; Messori, Gabriele; Berg, Alexis; Maia de Souza, Danielle; Sage, Rowan F.; deMenocal, Peter B. (March 2020). “The Greening of the Sahara: Past Changes and Future Implications”. One Earth. 2 (3): 235–250. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.03.002. ISSN 2590-3322.

Lu, Zhengyao; Zhang, Qiong; Miller, Paul A.; Zhang, Qiang; Berntell, Ellen; Smith, Benjamin (11 December 2020). “Impacts of large‐scale Sahara solar farms on global climate and vegetation cover”. Geophysical Research Letters. 48 (2): 2–3. doi:10.1029/2020GL090789. ISSN 1944-8007.

The Loess plateau in northern China

Within 20 years, the deserts of the Loess plateau became green valleys and productive farmland,

greening the Loess plateaux

restore the Loess Plateau in China’s Northwest

Hope in a Changing Climate

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References:

Liu, J.D. 2012. Finding Sustainability in Ecosystem Restoration. Available at: www.permaculturenews.org/2012/11/17/ finding-sustainability-in-ecosystem-restoration/

Liu, J.D. and Bradley, H. 2016. Chapter 4.8. A continuing inquiry into ecosystem restoration examples from China’s Loess Plateau and locations worldwide and their emerging implications. Land Restoration Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future.