Thursday, December 6, 2012

The Sahara Desert 1,000, 10,000, 1,000,000 Years From Now.



The Sahara Desert takes up most of North Africa and is even bigger than the United States of America. It is indeed the largest desert of the world and 4 out of the 5 hottest places is here.  The average temperature range for the Sahara Desert today is 30 degree Celsius and 86 degrees Fahrenheit during the summertime. During the winter time is around 13 degrees Celsius and 55 degrees Fahrenheit. The average temperature for the Sahara Desert is 40 degrees Celsius and 104 degrees Fahrenheit for some months and could reach as high as 122 degrees any given day. The highest recorded temperature was 58 Degrees Celsius and 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit in Libya.  The climate is what helps determine the temperature and I’m sure the Sahara Desert must have had a much bigger temperature range to form bigger precipitation of rainfall, more snow and not being as humid to create such a lush tropical place 3 million years ago. Ten thousand years ago was the start of what the Sahara Desert is today, a transformation from lush, populated grassland to a dry, humid and windy climate. High temperature climate is the physical creation.

 

Around 10,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was a tropical place with plants such as trees, grasslands and waterfalls. The Sahara Desert is now a very humid and windy place in which could very well be life threatening if you are not fully prepared for the weather. Ten thousand years ago, the Sahara Desert did not have sand dunes, ergs, plateaus or any of those sorts.  The Sahara Desert was more populated due to better and more safer living conditions. In 10,000 years, the Sahara Desert will be back to its lush grassland.


The Sahara Desert 1,000 years from now will be the same place as it is today if not different by a slight amount. As mentioned before, the Sahara Desert was very well grassland 6 to 10,000 years ago. Based off this I’m going to predict those 1,000 years from now is not enough time for the desert to be complete grassland for the most part. Speedy winds will create more sand dunes and even larger ones. There are still plenty of plant and water life despite the desert receiving on average 3 inches of rain a year. One million years from now the Sahara Desert may be a grassland, desert, extinct. It’s too hard to say now.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111115843.htm


The Sahara Desert is going to remain as the Sahara Desert one thousand years from now.  Ten thousand years from now there is going to be a shift from desert to lush tropical grassland. One million years from now is the toughest prediction to make for scientists and researchers alike due to it not occurring in record books. I will say tropical grassland in 1 million years or no land at all. Just land underwater: The Ocean.