If the Taklimakan Desert disappears, what will happen to the climate? Can it be irrigated into an oasis?

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Can the Taklimakan Desert be turned into an oasis artificially? If it becomes an oasis, what will happen to China's climate? Whether it is good or bad for the ecological environment, long press like and follow, let's open our minds and think about it together.

The Taklimakan Desert is located in the center of the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang. The entire desert is about 1,000 kilometers long from east to west, 400 kilometers wide from north to south, and covers an area of ​​330,000 square kilometers. In the eyes of people, this is a sea of ​​death, and it is his best interpretation that he can get in and can't get out. In fact, Taklimakan was a shallow sea a long time ago. Later, due to the movement of the earth's crust, the continent moved, and Taklimakan became a basin surrounded by mountains on three sides. The sand is too big to get in, and it has changed from a shallow sea to a sand sea over time. As for the specific formation time of the desert, most of them think that it was more than three million years ago. A layer of volcanic ash was found in the conglomerate. Scientists used isotope dating and finally determined that the Taklimakan Desert was formed about 25 million years ago. Humans didn’t know where to play in the mud 25 million years ago. The formation of deserts has nothing to do with human beings at all. It is completely caused by natural factors. However, the unusable land of 330,000 square kilometers is definitely a huge loss for us, so many students have a magical idea in their minds. idea.

If the Taklimakan Desert turns into an oasis, it would be really wonderful frog seeds eating wonderful crispy horns, and entering the Mickey Mouse house wonderfully home, then if this is really realized, what will happen to the Taklimakan Desert and even China? First of all, China's The topography and landform pattern will change. We assume that the Taklimakan Desert will be turned into grassland, then the total area of ​​deserts in China will be reduced by half, and then a grassland equivalent to the size of the North China Plain will be added. China’s grassland area will account for 43.7% of the country’s land area. The increase means that Xinjiang's animal husbandry will develop tremendously, and Xinjiang will surpass Inner Mongolia to become the largest cattle and sheep production base. At the same time, the sandstorms in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will be slowed down. If the governance is proper, Beijing will reproduce the blue sky and white clouds, and the grasslands will be solid soil. Sexuality will reduce soil erosion, the evaporation of water vapor will rise and the cold will form precipitation. Precipitation means that the vegetation will be more lush, and wild animals will naturally thrive here. In less than 20 years, a complete ecosystem will be formed here. Human life will also undergo earth-shaking changes. Compared with desert areas, grasslands are more suitable for human survival and habitation. This greatly relieves the population pressure of coastal cities. At the same time, the westerly winds in the northern hemisphere will carry away not sand and dust, but a large amount of dust. Water vapor, when passing through the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain, will bring rainfall and humid air to these areas, which can greatly improve the climatic conditions in these places, and agriculture will also develop unprecedentedly. , it will also become a temperate grassland climate. Of course, the camel, the boat of the desert, which everyone is worried about, will not perish.

Although many skills of the camel are evolved to adapt to the arid environment, this does not mean that he cannot adapt to the grassland, but because of the emergence of a large number of grasslands, the small days will become more moisturizing, but the desert boat will be changed to the grassland boat. Now that the brain hole has been opened up enough, let's face the practical problem, how to turn the Taklimakan Desert into a grassland, there are three mainstream views on the Internet, let's see how it is implemented. First: introduction Bohai enters Xinjiang, diverts water from the Bohai Sea through Inner Mongolia, crosses the Yinshan Mountains along the northern low slope of the Loess Plateau, and then uses the height difference to inject seawater into the Tarim Basin. Astronomical numbers can’t be described, and it’s good to think about the technical difficulty of delivering water from low to high. At least according to the current technology, the success rate is zero. It is the Himalayas that are going to be bombed. As long as a gap is created, the warm and humid airflow from the Indian Ocean will enter the hinterland of China through the gap. In front of the Jingwei reclamation, a Yugong Yishan will come here. If there is any effect, it must be effective. , but you have to ask the Tibetan people whether they agree or not. They have designated you to be thrown down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, not to mention the difficulty of blowing up. Just a series of unpredictable consequences cannot be implemented.

Third: Tibetan water enters Xinjiang. Tibet is the birthplace of many large rivers. It seems to be a very good project to divert the water from Tibet to the northwest through manual intervention. Some scientists have even proposed this plan. Interested You can search for the Hongqi River project. It can be said that the plan is very perfect, but there are also two problems. The first is the evaporation of the Taklimakan Desert. The annual evaporation here is as high as 2500~3400 mm. This kind of evaporation is very likely The water was drank by the sun before it arrived, so even the Hongqi River project deliberately avoided the desert, because it was really unbearable, many friends would say, this is not good or that, the Mu Us Desert is not well managed Well, why can't it be the Taklimakan Desert's turn? In fact, the problem is very simple. The Mu Us Desert is actually a semi-desert area. This is a grassland desertification caused by human grazing. It has a very strong precipitation, so it has the ability to recover naturally. , And the Taklimakan Desert is formed by the natural environment, it is even more difficult to manually intervene. Finally, the desert is also an important part of the ecosystem, we may not need to change it because of selfish desires, destroying the forest and grassland is destroying the ecology, destroying Natural deserts are also destroying ecology, rather than changing the natural formation of the earth.

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