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【F1】For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with
【F1】For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with
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2015-03-25
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For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with a lush inland sea or vast tracts of farmland.
Now researchers say they have actually found a way to make such a scheme work with forests across the desert—and to slow climate change in the process. The idea is the thought of Leonard Orn-stein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, who partnered with climate modelers David Rind and Igor Aleinov of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, all in New York City. They envision desalinating(removing salt)seawater from the neighboring oceans and bringing it inland using aqueducts(a pipe that carries a water supply).and pumps. Drip irrigation—plastic tubing to water the trees’ roots—would minimize the amount of water lost to evaporation and seepage into sandy soils, allowing trees to prosper in areas that are parched today.
According to climate simulations to be published next month in the journal Climatic Change, the forests would cool the Sahara by up to 8℃ in some areas. "Eucalyptus and a large number of other tropical tree species are heat-tolerant, so long as they have an ample supply of water in the root zone," Ornstein says. The scheme could also work for the arid Australian outback, the team reports.【F2】
Ornstein says that if most of the Sahara and Australian outback were planted with fast-growing trees like eucalyptus(桉树), the forests could draw down about 8 billion tons of carbon a year—nearly as much as people emit from burning fossil fuels and forests today.
As the forests matured, they could continue taking up this much carbon for decades.
The project wouldn’t be cheap. The researchers put the price tag at some $2 trillion per year.【F3】
The price would be roughly comparable to that of capturing carbon dioxide at power plants and storing it underground, which would eventually cost about $200 per ton of carbon, according to a recent study from Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, compared with about $400 per ton of carbon for the forests.
"Any solution to climate change has to be a multitrillion-dollar project," Ornstein says. "The issue is what the payback is. " In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood-burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon-neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.
Planting these forests might have side effects. The increased moisture could trigger plagues of locusts in Africa, just as the odd wet year does now.【F4】
It could also dampen existing soils, stopping iron-rich dust from blowing off the Sahara and into the Atlantic Ocean, where it nourishes sea life, the study points out.
Despite the drawbacks, the proposal "is incredibly important and definitely worth taking seriously and looking into further," says atmospheric scientist Richard Anthes.【F5】
"The benefits could be enormous and go well beyond carbon separation," making vast areas far more livable and productive.
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该研究指出,这也会湿润现有的土壤,导致富含铁的灰尘不能从撒哈拉沙漠刮到大西洋去滋养那里的海洋生命。
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本句主干为the study points out。原文主句放在末尾,翻译时应提前。注意where引导的地点状语从句仅修饰the Atlantic Ocean。dampen可译为“湿润”;existing“存在的”在这里引申为“现有的”。
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