What If There Was a Flood in the Sahara Desert?
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- The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. Located in North Africa, its area is a whopping 3.5 million square miles, which is almost the size of the whole United States! It's a scorching hot place where very few lifeforms can survive. What few people know, however, is that it hasn’t always been like that. Every 41,000 years, the Sahara turns into a savannah grassland thanks to the movement of the Earth’s axis. Its next change of landscape is going to happen 15,000 years from now. But there is an idea that can make this process not just faster but different altogether. It’s called the Sahara Sea project…
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TIMESTAMPS:
What the Sahara Sea project is 1:37
What Jules Verne wrote about that 2:13
Why the French professor’s idea was rejected 3:47
Operation Plowshare 5:00
New plans to develop the Sahara Sea project 5:43
What this project might lead to 6:48
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SUMMARY:
- The first concept appeared in 1877 when Scottish entrepreneur Donald Mackenzie proposed to turn the El Djouf basin of the Sahara Desert into an inland sea.
- The following year, two French activists, Francois Elie Roudaire and Ferdinand de Lesseps, suggested a similar idea for the Chott el Fejej, another basin in the desert.
- It’s interesting that even Jules Verne was fascinated by the idea of creating a sea inside the world’s greatest desert. He wrote two adventure novels in 1877 and 1905 that dwelled on the matter and referred directly to Roudaire and de Lesseps’s plans.
- The first of the attempts to return to this issue was made in 1910 by French professor Edmund Etchegoyen. He was sure that an inland sea inside the Sahara would improve the climate in Europe.
- The Sahara Sea project’s second comeback was called on by members of Operation Plowshare. They proposed to blow up several explosives in the middle of the desert to create a basin that would then fill with water.
- There have been several initiatives in the 21st century, but the most promising one is called “The Sea in the Desert”. Its idea is to flood Chott El Jerid, one of the shallow salt lakes in southern Tunisia.
- Tunisia has a really high unemployment rate, and such a gigantic project would make the country’s economy skyrocket by providing jobs for approximately 60,000 people.
- The humid climate around the artificial sea would allow locals to farm the lands all year long, making a huge impact on the economy of the country.
- The Sea in the Desert project suggests there will be alternative energy generators installed after the main job is done.
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Hey guys, would you rather spend 3 days in a Desert or in frozen Antarctica?
I would spend my days in desert
Desert
Desert
None xd
But.. yea antarctica
I live in desert so I would try Antarctica
I live near this area and another pro to the project is the sea in the desert will help to reduce sea level rise worldwide.
yes, just do it, at least world seawater level will drop
for drop 3cm??
Millimeters not centimeters.
TIMESTAMPS:
What the Sahara Sea project is 1:37
What Jules Verne wrote about that 2:13
Why the French professor’s idea was rejected 3:47
Operation Plowshare 5:00
New plans to develop the Sahara Sea project 5:43
What this project might lead to 6:48
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The Sahara was once a sea,ancient whale bones found in the sand.
The Sahara was once green and was populated.
no. this is the evidence of the world wide flood.
@@catharinabellekom2013 From the bible?
@@DarthVantos yes from 9000 years ago. look at a map of africa, on ggole maps and you can see the lines of fast moving water receding back into the ocean, you will also see the eye of the sahara aka Atlantis
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Yes! I agree
The green Sahara wasn’t that long ago but the ocean bones was much longer ago
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Sahara sea project sounds like an amazing idea 💡👌
Investing Hustler it isn’t god made it scorching hot for a reason but people still don’t know
But what about the animals and plants that live in the desert? I know not much things live there... But this will destroy ecosystems
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How can saltwater be beneficial for farming?Unless they can turn all that seawater into freshwater right away, it'll take 100 years before you can see any benefits.
Listen the sand of the sahara desert flys with the air and get settled in amazon rain forest and fertiles it
Amogh Toshniwal is true. I live in South America close to the Amazon and I saw the sand coming in to land looking exactly like Sahara desert sand.
Also provides iron for planktion growth
@Desmond Bagley Why are lying the sands only travels at night.
It also helps El Yunque in Puerto Rico too...
and?
One way to attempt growing plants in the desert could involve planting them in the space between two walls. One facing eastward, one facing westward. When the sun rises in the east, the wall would provide shade for the plants, so that its soil would only have direct sun exposure at noon, then as it moves westward, the second wall would provide shade starting at about 3-4 pm. This shade would cut down on evaporation of the water of the soil where the plants are planted.
Flooding the desert might also have a positive effect on sea level rise.
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The Sahara desert definitely needs more water 💧
Yes I do I’m really thirsty
Yup!
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Would also be a nice way to counter the rising sea levels!
If rising sea levels was actually an issue, these type projects would have already been started
@@LeroyBrown Well they starting now
@@LeroyBrown what makes you think rising sea level isn't an issue!? There are companies building properties that can float in floods, floating Bridges and so on 🤔
Does anyone else think messing with mother nature is a bad idea ?
I think it's a terrible idea and the consequences could be huge
Royston Mohamed. Of course, bad idea, as always...
??? Fracking and using fossils fuels is messing with mother nature. Where have you been for the past 100 years?
Yep also alternate energy sources like turbines are having much worse impact to the environment from burning petroleum
Also According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), public and private actors spent $1.1 trillion on solar and over $900 billion on wind between 2007 and 2016.
Global investment in solar and wind hovered at around $300 billion per yearbetween 2010 and 2016.
My hope is that someday, these projects happen, not only so north Africa becomes habitable and hospitable, but it would also lower the temperatures across a massive region while lowering sea levels a bit.
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love the idea, i think it's also maybe reduce the risk of Sea Level raising :-D
John Peric with evaporation there would be a continuous flow through the channel that feeds this inland sea. The rain fall on the desert could over time make a grassland and farm areas. Even a drop of a few millimeters in sea level will help if this small scale worked maybe other countries would also try in their areas. Still a lot of could be and maybe with this. Not sure how this would affect climate over all. If we never try will never know.
sho anna hmmmm..........
Good and bad idea!
MAYBE not trying to be rude
Exactly it will reduce the sea level raising greatly.
its a desert keep it to be what it actually is
thanks for the likes
I love this idea. I wonder if having a body of water in the Sahara would lessen or intensify the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic.
It would intensify hurricane formations due to a marginal reduction in saharan dust, which diminishes hurricane formation.
FYI the Salton Sea was a failure and is wreaking havoc in California today.
It would have been solved if the was a proper canal but California's government did not choose any solution yet.
Salton Sea would have worked out fine if there was better infrastructure around the whole project.
@@indigoism6089 the salton sea was actually formed by accident.
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I am mainly talking about the town around the Salton Sea, not the body of water itself.
@@indigoism6089 the town came to being when the salton sea formed. It was a resort town dubbed the reviera of America.
Looks like someone was too obssessed with watching Aquaman😩😌 😂😂
".....Before the Sahara was a desert...."
Personally, I'd mostly like humanity to stop messing with nature just because they can't change their consumption habits.
Interesting idea, Nafisa. But what do you propose instead. Tunisia is a country with several million below the poverty line. Do you propose they all look for jobs in Europe? A person who is hungry and unemployed will almost never consider the environment. How would you change the situation to make it sustainable?
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Sahara desert is morocco😕 why nobody says that the sahara of morocco is. The sahara is OURS nobody will take it ever.
3:02 the bottom on the left side thats moroccans sahara
The Salton Sea is one of the greatest engineering blunders in American history, and a perfect example of how this would end up being the same type of ecological disaster.
Can i find article about it?
Yes the Salton sea is an ecological disaster, but these proposed inland seas have a feature that the Salton doesn't. A canal connecting them to the wider ocean. As long as it's made wide enough an inland sea can refresh its own water supply.
Because USA dumped chemicals (round up ) in that sea
That is only because there's not a permanent Canal refilling it
Wrong, there has been a lake in the Salton Basin in the past-it died up around 1600 AD. Today, you can see the ancient shoreline on the surrounding mountains. The problem today is that sewage and farm runoff has polluted the lake, It could be saved if a canal was built (to the Gulf of Mexico) to bring in seawater. The Sea could be a great resource (fishing, resorts) if it is handled properly..but we prefer to build $18 billion aircraft carriers for imaginary wars that will never be fought.
The problem of flooding inland basin with sea water is the salt. You bring in sea water in the basin, water evaporate and goes away. The salt remain, more sea water flows in the basin, and the cycle repeats. So you get an inland sea that is too salty for anything to live in it, like the dea sea.
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Here is a fun fact. Most Tunisians don't live in the desert, but rather living in the lush green Mediterranean, and mountainous forest landscapes of Tunisia, this is why most Tunisians have never even seen a camel in real life, nor even sat foot in the desert of southern Tunisia.
Sahara sea project sound amazing just imagine 😍😍
I like this- and am surprised they don't even mention the positive effect on ameliorating rising sea levels.
To me the beneficial effect on Africa would just be a nice side-effect to the necessary attempt to lower sea level.
it will have minimal effect on sea level, the volume of water in oceans is orders of magnitude higher than any low lands it's going to fill inside the sahara
@@zazugee Yep. People are incredibly bad at math. It's an easy calculation.
Sahara is ~9mil km2. Oceans cover about 360mil km2. That's a ratio of 1:40. So you'd have to flood the ENTIRE Sahara with 40m of water to lower ocean levels 1m. Flooding a lake 2-3% the size of the Sahara isn't going to do anything.
Meanwhile, The Antarctic landmass is ~14mil km2 and covered with an average of 2000m of ice... so even flooding the Sahara with 40m would only use up 2% of that ice sheet.
@@RandomPlaceHolderName wow, i didn't know antartica was larger than the sahara
What will happen to the animals
Very good. You can create many seas inside that vast desert. Coconut trees and forest will flourish there. Perfect destination during ice age period.
Great idea- if it goes the way it says ; but many times never happens .
The government could exploit the workers and fill their coffers
For People, who say: " don't Interrupt the nature" here what I have to say--rising sea level will swallow so many waterfront cities, that this might be one of the few projects, that might save this from happening. It's the easiest thing to say---don't do anything, but yet again we all drive cars and use all the dirty energy supply, so we are already doing harm, there is no perfect solution for anything, but filling up deserts with water will reverse the rising sea level. This is the future and we will be doing it regardless, I just don't want us to start late.
Watching this video like ‘ Y didn’t I think about this before ? ‘
History is the witness that whenever we have tried to change something natural the consequences have always been disastrous.
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I agree but not completely cause it's not always that disasters get created ,like dams stopped disasters .well ,I know what you mean ,I highly expect a new disease at least as result of their sea in dessert ideas
True .
@@raiz9470 dams have stopped floods but the same dam has destroyed habitats of many animals and fishes Earth is for everyone not only for humans.
What if we are surprised with some really bad side effects?
For now, stopping desert progression or reclaiming part back with Baobab trees might be safer and still provide poor communities with fruit tree revenues.
This is why global warming doesn't scare me at all. And it shouldn't scare anyone else.
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The end is near, when a desert become a savanna
If by near you mean 15 thousand years from now you are spot-on
nah poliicians are so Dirty they won"t do this
That sounds like some Muslim fear-mongering
The end of a desert, yes.
Yup The End Is Near 😨😨
Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower switched places 😂
Some Corrections and Suggestions
1 Donald Mackenzie plan - can't be done with channel only with pumps. El Djouf basin has average elevation of 320 m with small exception of 250 km² at Sebkha Tah at 55 meters below sea level which can be flooded with minimal effort(it's close to the ocean)
2 Francois Elie Roudaire and Fredinand de Lesseps plan - also only with pumps Chott El Fejaj although there are separate dents below sea level has average elevation at least 25m
3.Edmund Etchefoyen suggestion is somewhat right. It is not selfish it is related to the convection belts/cells especially with Hadley Cell
4. Operation Plowshare I'll skip the nukes...terrible idea.
5."The sea in the Desert" plan - yes will affect the surrounding climate(will mild it due to increased humidity) but the main idea-the rainfall, I think the rain will fall near equator or above Europe not above the surrounding area and if any only rain cannot make soil fertile, so forget the farming and the forestry if you not build desalination plant for irrigation and enrichment of the soil. Saline aquaculture(Fish farming) - yes it can be done but with careful selection of the species. I don't see the logic behind that the alternative energy generators must be installed after the flooding(why solar panels need nearby artificial sea to work???). Channel must be around 350km long, over 40m deep at some places and must cross not only Tunisia but also Algeria so in this configuration it is not feasible. Turbines yes it can be installed for power generation due to evaporation of the artificial sea.
It is not mentioned Qattara depression in Egypt which also can be flooded.
So the options that I suggest which are feasible:
1."The sea in the Desert" plan but with pumps and pipes
sea with area around 12,000 km² between Tunisia and Algeria
borders Chott el Djerid, Chott el Gharsa, Chott Melrhir and Chott Felrhir of which only the last two are bellow sea level
pumping distance 20km from sea
pumping elevation 45m
power generation with turbines,wind and solar
2.Qattara Depression with pumps and pipes
sea with area around 19,000 km² in Egypt
pumping distance 77km from sea
pumping elevation 150m
power generation with turbines, wind and solar
it will be net power producer only with turbines so wind and solar are optional
3.The Salton sea with pumps and pipes
Yes it can be saved... :)
flooding Laguna Salada with water from Golf of California
pumping distance 68km from ocean
pumping elevation 5m
from Laguna Salada to Salton sea
pumping distance 67km from Laguna Salada
pumping elevation 60m
pipeline costs between $1 and 4 million per km
I can do these projects but I'll need people to form a team of engineers(civil, hydro etc.), geologists etc.
So if you are interested comment, like and share more people to see this.
Wasn't Qattara Depression 55km from the sea?
@@wfakount Yes, but to be energy neutral you need 77 km (it is connected to some calculations that I made.)
Resort in front of a beautiful Sea and a scorching sun? Count me in!
I love how the title is like 2019 and “soon” 😂
I think if there needs to be water in the desert then GOD should handle it we've done enough damage to the world we've borrowed as it is
Walter Stanfield god doesn't exist
@@saturns1lk947 do you
@@saturns1lk947 no ones ever seen so called "god" its just bulshit people in olden days only made it up because they diddnt have since and wonted to explane stuff
There is no god.
@@MrDemonchild71 true
Im Tunisian And I Like That Idea Hopefully It Will Happen Soon
If I had a chance, I'd love to visit a sea in the middle of the Sahara desert!
lovely idea i think :) i wanna be there when this massive project start
I thought Egypt wanted to flood the quattara Deoression ? (200' below sea level).
This taught me a lot about myself
Plot twist : there was a flood before like one million years ago.
Ohh thank you I forgot about that
Turning Sahara in to a green spot is attractive, but things always don't work out the we want. We have to be ready to take on the challenges of the huge change. This does not seem like a bad change as it is presented as a positive change. Let someone present the other side. No pains no gains.
Pretty sure all the wealthy types would love to see their coast pads sitting high and dry after all the Oceans have been drained into inland seas lol
Gunna B Thats why they have already begun melting ice to compensate for the water loss that would incur. Climate change has some good effects😂
@@sebastianmikaelsen7628 Love people with fringe thinking. You may be right lol
for the Tunis project the latest for solar would be on floating pontoons as this helps keep the panels cooler and more efficient as well as reducing evaporation
Btw sahara = desert, and they call it THE BIGGEST DESERT " Al Sahara'a Al Kobrah" in Arabic
الصحراء الكبرى
Just another, what if. And if it all goes bad, then they just leave everything where it is to rot. Humans need to just leave the desert alone instead being money hungry. It's beautiful just like it is, the way its meant to be.
We love our hot sahara region
Dont want greenery for greenery we got tunisia
Europeans please mind your own business 😂
The desert turn into a QUICKSAND!!? SAND+WATER
No. Oasis is when water makes soil and then life like palm trees.
This is awesome!!! I would love to go there.
I was thinking one gigantic quicksand sea but the swamp idea is interesting too.
What about all the animals in the desert that can only survive there!?
Their life will be easier
Which one is more important, Animals or human survival ?!
@@crueltygarcia9598 no, they will be perished
@@Mina-Rofaeil humans dont need sahara to survive
@@TheYavy but the people that live there already do!
Eagerly waiting to see this !!!! 😍
The Sahara sea project might ruin the Sahara desert and if it does go on and the Sahara turns into a Savanha or a deadly marsh, you can add this place to top ten natural places humans ruined (in fifty years time).Good video though
You clearly are a glass full kinda guy.
Even if we created a narrow channel that links such a basin to Mediterranean sea, I'd guess the flowing water would do rest of the work and automatically make it wider.
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Better fill up the ARAL Sea again, the 'nearly' disappearance of that sea is an ecological disaster for that area and also affects local weather. REFILL the ARAL !
Oh my gosh maybe treasure in the Sahara sea let us dive.
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This Sahara sea project would seem to be a good idea especially with global warming and the Antarctic ice shelves melting and global ocean levels expected to rise several meters all over the world. Sending that extra water into the Sahara and eventually the Gobi desert makes sense.
Also it will lower the sealevel of the world
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There is also a plan to flood the Qattara Depression from the Mediterranean.
There's a video about that. I would have disastrous effects on the entire ecosystem of Europe. No, the water has to come either from the Atlantic Ocean or from towed glaciers.
Well I mean IT JUST SNOWED THERE!!
It has been prophesied by prophet Muhammad: The Hour will not come until the Arabian lands has rivers and savannahs.
Thats sahara in north africa bro, not arabian lands
illuminate madtoi he didn't say "only the land of arabia" will have rivers and savannahs". So, I assumed all on that latitude such as north Africa will have rivers and savannahs too. Of course, othrr places on earth at that time will be receive dryness and maybe we will see in the near future "climate change refugees".
But are you a Muslim?
Perhaps this is one of the ways which the prophecy of our prophet will come true and Allah is in control of all things and everything is under His will.
My father lived and worked in the Sahara desert for several years.
This seems like a very bad idea. Leave nature be.
Why bad idea?
These places are not inhabited by animals
When I was a kid I really want to travel in Sahara until now :)
The idea sounds amazing but I were humans and look at what we ruined so far in this world the dessert will be attracting more tourists just like the other amazing places in this world and then we will ruin it 🌲☘️🌳🍀🌴🌱🌵🌿🍃🌾🌸🌼🌞🌺🌾🐚🍄🌹🌷🍁🍂💐🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
daizy baltazar the truth, sadly 😳😞😭
@@LisMartinez2011 True, Very True. That's Why They Have Hid A Beautiful Paradise Inside The Bermuda Triangle.
Oh no.
Brilliant idea,if the vast Sahara desert could be brought back to a large forest,it would decrease the temperature of the earth and there would be a moderate climate again👌,nowhere too hot anymore
Jonathan Skylar The Sahara Desert fertilizers the amazon rainforest so if we did make it into a forest it will probably effect the amazon in a bad way, not so brilliant idea.
Oceans are desserts in and of themselves. I dont see how a dessert in the middle of a dessert will make a paradise
what the f did i just read?
I love this idea. Wish this project turns into reality and sucess!
Same here, and think about doing something similar to American deserts. I would love a sea in Arizona (I live there). (Jan Griffiths).
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Wonderful topic to choose from
God bless humanity 👍🏻 always I think about this to happen
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Very interesting 😱😀
Correction, there WAS a proposal. Nobody is actually making this proposal a reality.
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That background music reminds me of a dubai type palm island in sahara desert in coming future 😍
Sahara desert is changing to its wonderful paradise on its own. This isn’t even a project lol jokers
The Salton Sea is now one big ecological disaster that they don't know how to fix. You should do a video on that. Fascination story and history.
You would drown
Creativ Brian nah
what about the animals I need the desert to become extinct😥
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When I was young I wonder, how does the sun get through the land. Nice project to be!
who would want to dig in the dessert to make a basin for the atlantic ocean?
are you people crazy?
Actually the distance between the mediterranean sea and Chott ejrid in Tunisia is not that far. And it's not a desert neither.
no they’re actually incredibly intelligent
at this point even Einstein would agree with the idea
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