RESTORING CLIMATE A breakthrough and a must read for anybody interested in climate change
This 2019 – 2024 study and book are based on my expertise in coastal processes, meteorology-hydrology, heat transfer and solar energy. It demonstrates how deforestation from prehistoric times to the present has destabilized the global water cycle, leading to fires and floods. Ground heat from vegetation clearing is amplified by the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and vegetation, resulting in global warming and climate change.
The book details climate restoration methods that do not impede, but enhance economic activity. It has detailed explanations, easy-to-follow calculations and highlighted ideas for quick browsing. To receive a personalized copy of the eBook the next day, simply include your email address in the “Add a note” section when submitting $10 through PayPal. For the paperback version: Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
For about 1.5 million years humans have used fire and later mechanical means to clear almost all former forests for hunting, pastoralism or agriculture. The intertropical areas that were first inhabited receive large solar radiation, so the deforested soils were quickly destroyed by heat and erosion. That overheated ground dries out the atmosphere above it and any humid wind coming from the ocean, so no rain can form above today`s tropical deserts.
All that humidity, which previously fell on the former tropical and equatorial forests and created their rivers, cannot now discharge in those deserts, so it can only condense as rain in the colder areas from higher latitudes. Those areas are now overheated by the heat coming as humidity from the tropics, while the excess precipitations create floods. We can stop this by re-vegetating the intertropical areas, thus sequestering atmospheric carbon.
Albedo should only be used when considering all relevant parameters, otherwise it would appear that vegetation and water warm the Earth, while this study demonstrates that they are the most powerful coolers.
The effects of deforestation are calculated and shown to be so large, that anthropogenic water and vegetation changes become climate drivers.
Conceptual simulations and reality checks allow understanding the role of water and how to use it to restore regional climate.
It is explained why building in forest clearings leads to very intense forest fires, and there are shown safer solutions for living surrounded by trees.
New heat transfer analyses and realistic quantitative estimations increase confidence in our ability of restoring the regional and global climates by re-balancing the regional and global water cycle.
It is shown how water produces stronger cooling than its greenhouse effect. Trees have the greatest capacity to extract and evaporate water.
The first requirement is to stop net deforestation and forest fires, thus soil erosion and the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The second step is to start revegetation of intertropical areas to sequester carbon and re-balance the climate. Revegetation of the Middle East and North Africa will cool and stop floods in Europe, will decrease the overheating of the Arctic and might decrease Atlantic hurricanes.
Australia has a great capacity to recover from its artificial state of “the driest continent” because the surrounding oceans send humid winds above it. Through the proper revegetation method described in the book we can increase precipitation and transform Australia back into a bio-diverse, but also highly agriculturally productive and beautiful continent.
Restructuring agriculture can restore regional climate through increased evapotranspiration, while also increasing many fold the income and food production per hectare. Soils can be repaired, carbon emissions reduced, while existing atmospheric carbon would automatically be sequestered.
A new urban architecture style is the unitary rational building (URB), a very compact city that provides for all requirements of a civilized, modern lifestyle, even in a natural or rural setting. The URB has by far the lowest capital, running and transportation costs, while allowing room for other land uses around.
If Amazonia and Central Africa are revegetated with these methods, ocean evaporated water will reinstate the large intertropical precipitation regime. Repairing the water cycle will stop present devastating droughts, forest fires and floods, restore regional climates and improve the global one.
The book describes customized solutions for: Maroc, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Central Africa, the USA, Australia, South America, Indonesia, and Somalia. The global climate would re-balance if North Africa and Australia are revegetated for the benefit of both hemispheres.
The book is a collection of breakthroughs in climate understanding, agriculture, applied climate restoration, nature conservation, land management, transportation, urban planning and architecture. It provides achievable solutions for improving the climate, economy and general wellbeing of people.
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