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many warm ocean currents occurs in the eastern part of the world for insence the Mozambique warm current while most of the cold ocean currents are in the western part of the the world the Banguela being an example as the result these cold currents becomes the permanent causes of Deserts in the world such as the Kalahari,the Gobi, the Sahara, the Namibi desert in Africa the Atakama in America .
What do you think can be the causes and if there, can`t they be eliminated or reduced?

2007-12-10 22:24:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Geography

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I am sorry but it isn't true. The Gulfstream warms up the entire north Europe, on its western side. And thanks god for that because I live in Norway and without it, we would be living in permafrost. Oslo is on the same latitude as Cape Farewell in Greenland and Anchorage, Alaska.
As for the desert, I don't think Sahara or Gobi has anything to do with the sea currents.
Deserts are mostly in high pressure belts around the earth, between the tropical lows and polar frontal lows. If the earth wasn't rotating, probably air masses would move from equator to the poles but the rotation and Coriolis effect makes the warm air from the equatorial zone to spin clockwise (over the north hemisphere) and sink over somewhere around the latitude 30.
The Gobi desert is slightly different; few places on earth are that far away from any ocean. Humid oceanic air masses hardly reach there without being already dried out.

2007-12-11 00:25:14 · answer #1 · answered by Michel Verheughe 7 · 0 0

Deserts are caused by extremely high or low land and air temperatures to which only a small number of plant and animal species can adapt.
In areas with the most extreme temperatures there are no plants and animals migrate to escape the hottest or coldest months of the year.
The temperature of ocean currents determines which species of living organisms, plants and fish, inhabit the waters of the world.
Nothing can be done to change the way the movements of the Earth causes water to slop from side to side, flow from North to South. flow downhill or fall out of the sky, that is just the way it was, is and will always be. It is most fortunate that man cannot intervene I think.

2007-12-11 01:01:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't think global warming is a threat to life, Its something that naturally Happens, This is Happened to the world a thousand times over, People are just Over reacting and just need to get over it, scientists use Global warming as an excuse for people to treat the world better, If we were here or weren't it wouldn't make a difference, there would still be the big freeze. the world does this all of the time the colds only gonna get worse... (:

2016-05-23 00:10:11 · answer #3 · answered by reva 3 · 0 0

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