Comments by "Howard the dot connector." (@peetsnort) on "When the Sahara Was Green" video.

I have a lovely fossilised log from desert in Sudan and it has all the features of a fallen tree with knot holes and bark. It proves that the Sahara had trees of a decent size
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I reckon the roman empire used all the trees to fire the trillions of bricks to build Rome and their cooking fires for centuries
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@iloveamerica1966 bored?
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@noneofyourbeeswax01 it's funny how the experts never mention that. I had to use my mind to stumble upon the reasoning that in order to fire the billions of bricks that we can still see today must have required billions of trees. Whats more is the method used to chop them down. When we we think we think from modern perspectives. No chainsaws in them thar days. They never even had decent saws. I still remember seeing 100 year old photos of lumberjack who were using axes. So extrapolate backwards thousands of years and the question arises. What methods did they use?
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@109Rage I read how the elephant in Tsavo region when left alone from poachers in the 50s literally ate the forest and produced savanna and then they ate so much that they died en mass from starvation. So there's that aspect.
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Robert Williamson I think the continent plate drifting has more to do with crocs and turtles being there. The whole of Australia is moving slowly for example. The surface of the earth is like plastic over hundreds of millions of years. Slowly moving
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I have a beautiful fossilised tree stump from northern Sudan and it looks just like the modern trees further south. Acacia I think. An old friend who was a spitfire pilot lugged it all the way back to UK. It weight is 30 kg
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@dralord1307 yes I remember reading about underground water in Africa or Australia that was dated and found to be millions of years old. Just like the time bomb in America where the underground water is nearly finished. Now that the places that have depended on it will return to nature and the food production as we have become accustomed to will have to be grown elsewhere
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uncletigger how else do you think people expand their minds? If you don't speculate then you will never improve. You will just sit on your arse like a welfare princess. WE have to dream sometimes
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