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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K
I guess this would only work by an ocean. Especially since the desert states already have mountains.
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As long as you have warm humid air rising it will work.
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appala...ate_rainforest
To the bigger point, mountains, where there were none before, can have far reaching climate impacts elsewhere. Presumably they're modeling all that, but these things can backfire.
Also wouldn't you need a whole range of mountains? Otherwise the air just goes around it.
There's other ways
https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savo...e?language=en#