North African wind ducts

The philosopher David Hume remarked that if God wanted to make the world a better place, one way would be to reduce the extremes in climate over the globe. Many places are too hot and dry for human life (e.g. deserts), while others are far too cold (e.g. Scotland). However, since God in his wisdom did not take sufficient steps to reduce climatic differences, the task is left to us.

Heat moves globally from warm areas to colder areas by a number of methods, including wind and ocean currents. Channelling warm air from hot deserts to cooler places would therefore help warm the recipients and even, perhaps, cool the desert.

I would like the hot air from the Sahara to blow north towards northern Europe, but there are a number of natural barriers in the way, including the Atlas mountains in the north of Africa. I therefore propose that we modify the Atlas mountains by a gigantic engineering process so that instead of obstructing the flow of warm air north from the Sahara Desert, they channel the warm air north to Scotland via a series of large baffles fashioned from rock.

Meteorologists have devoted a large amount of time and effort to understanding the movement of wind over the earth's surface. Their task should be to change it. Let us build the Atlas Baffles like huge sails pointing northwards, and while we're at it demolish the Pyrenees.