tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251183560375528307.post6570383022199257532..comments2024-03-28T21:34:42.328-05:00Comments on Bit Tooth Energy: The Shrinking SaharaHeading Outhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01790783659594652657noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251183560375528307.post-57693399241844699382009-12-23T11:44:31.295-06:002009-12-23T11:44:31.295-06:00Thank you for your nice posting.
it is really help...Thank you for your nice posting.<br />it is really helpful to us.<br />such a nice topics.<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow">Bathmate</a>bathmatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08828026417866333107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251183560375528307.post-23503290771593925332009-07-26T09:31:24.600-05:002009-07-26T09:31:24.600-05:00Luis:
Thanks for the references. One of the fo...Luis:<br /> Thanks for the references. One of the folk that plots the old water courses under the desert is one of our grads, (Farouk el Baz) - albeit before my time, and he has been <a href="http://www.gsafweb.org/TrusteeNews/faroukindarfur.html" rel="nofollow"> very successful at it.</a>Heading Outhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01790783659594652657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251183560375528307.post-4733409693353596482009-07-22T09:05:47.075-05:002009-07-22T09:05:47.075-05:00Hi Dave,
Basic knowledge of meridional circulatio...Hi Dave,<br /><br />Basic knowledge of meridional circulation tells you that deserts shrink as temperatures rise and circulation slows down. During the first millenia of the Holocene a good part of what are today the Shara and Arabia were green. It is no incendent that Agriculture took some of its first steps there. Remember were wrtting was born?<br /><br />In 2000 the finding of 200 burial sites in northern Niger shed some light on the size of the civilization once existed where today there's nothing but sand:<br /><br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.html<br /><br />There's some loose information on the internet on this period that lasted during the first half of Holocene:<br /><br />http://www.wisegeek.com/what-was-the-green-sahara.htm<br /><br />Before AGW became a political issue this was common knowledge, as some old books show:<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v292/n5820/full/292277a0.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08895745055248556694noreply@blogger.com