Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?

Name: Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?
Description: Real Engineering examines whether greening the Sahara could draw down carbon and slow climate change. It concludes that the effort would be enormously costly and that changes in albedo and other effects undercut the climate benefit.

Real Engineering

Real Engineering examines whether greening the Sahara could draw down carbon and slow climate change. It concludes that the effort would be enormously costly and that changes in albedo and other effects undercut the climate benefit.

Recommended in tree-planting and carbon removal threads as a sourced explanation of why greening deserts is not a simple climate fix.

4 Hacker News mentions · 2018–2021

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Climate policy, solutions & debate
Environment, agriculture & food systems

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