Desertification of Southern Europe

It already is a desert!

[/Englishman who doesn't like the hot weather]
:p

Interesting idea, might want to move this thread to asb though.
 
It already is a desert!

[/Englishman who doesn't like the hot weather]
:p

Interesting idea, might want to move this thread to asb though.

I posted a similar topic to that in ASB but I expanded this thread to include the Gobi and Takla-Makan
 
The Gobi desert and surrounding steppe becominh hyperarid is indeed a logical idea. It is happening today. Let us say the same windfall that befalls the Mongols affects Goatherders as well.
The Goat population explodes, and many go feral, consuming up the Steppes.

Europe, you just need a deadlier Bubonic plague to open up tracts of land. The Farmers then abuse it like they do in Modern Brazil.

Butterflies are certainly great, with 'Black Blizzards' striking Madrid or Milan, and other ecological problems (Oh sh*, a meandering Tiber River!)

Columbus may become a refugee if he is even born, and perhaps some other Explorer is funded by England or France to Go West.
 
I posted a similar topic to that in ASB but I expanded this thread to include the Gobi and Takla-Makan

So you thought you'd make it less ASB by having the random climate shift take place in three areas instead of one? ;)

Seriously though, can you be more specific? There's already been extensive desertification there - how much more are we talking? Most of Italy and Iberia looking like Sicily?
 
So you thought you'd make it less ASB by having the random climate shift take place in three areas instead of one? ;)

Seriously though, can you be more specific? There's already been extensive desertification there - how much more are we talking? Most of Italy and Iberia looking like Sicily?

Yes...that is what I am asking for I was thinking what if the steepe nomads were driven to the Kamchatka-Amur area or OTL RFE could the americas be more immunized?..
 
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