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I wonder how the albedo has changed, and evaporation of water there.
That was my thought too Is it possible the trees can change the climate in the region? Can trees dampen regional water flux, seed clouds down range?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/climate-change/china-accid...
(if that doesn't come up, search terms to find it were "news china rainfall forest tree planting change")
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Are you able to find it on Google Maps? Having a hard time locating it. "Based on the results of this study, the Taklamakan Desert, although only around its rim, represents the first successful model demonstrating the possibility of transforming a desert into a carbon sink," Yung said.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Taklamakan+Desert/@38.8709...
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Are you able to find it on Google Maps? Having a hard time locating it. "Based on the results of this study, the Taklamakan Desert, although only around its rim, represents the first successful model demonstrating the possibility of transforming a desert into a carbon sink," Yung said.
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Are you able to find it on Google Maps? Having a hard time locating it. "Based on the results of this study, the Taklamakan Desert, although only around its rim, represents the first successful model demonstrating the possibility of transforming a desert into a carbon sink," Yung said.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Taklamakan+Desert/@38.8709...
Those rows of greenery are the trees planted. They do a ton of this by hand, it's really fascinating.
Alipay has a function called ant forest, you use the app more often, you get more credit. And when it reach certain amount, aliaba will plant a small tree in the desert. People used to be crazy about this shit, but not for now. I guess the main reason is that these effort are good activities, but it didn’t help that much, compared to the effort from the government. At least on the this topic, they did a pretty good j…
So to plant a row of trees a bulldozer has to level sand dunes. I somehow doubt the exhaust from this process is factored into the CO2 sink calculation.
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That was my thought too Is it possible the trees can change the climate in the region? Can trees dampen regional water flux, seed clouds down range?
Yes, they do, which has had implications for rainfall patterns: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/climate-change/china-accid... (if that doesn't come up, search terms to find it were "news china rainfall forest tree planting change")
However, I think the more relevant dynamic for this region is the water-holding capacity of the soil. If you get lost in a desert you are more likely to drown than to die of thirst because the water-holding capacity of the "soil" is almost nothing making flash floods likely. But soil that is at an advanced stage of ecological succession will be dominated by mycorrhizal fungi that produce glomalose. This type of soil can hold as much as 50x more water than "dead" soil