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 presents new findings that demonstrate how deforestation of the intertropical area has destabilized the global water cycle, leading to severe floods and droughts. Ground heat exacerbated by deforestation is amplified by the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and vegetation, resulting in global warming and climate change.
This research justifies the possibility of climate restoration, halting soil erosion and reversing desertification through a range of locally-customized solutions. These solutions use a combination of land management practices within a framework of optimized agriculture, innovative urban planning and Nature conservation. Furthermore, these measures will result in carbon dioxide sequestration, helping the transition to renewable energy technologies and carbon emissions reductions.
The new approach and proposed mitigation solutions are easily assessable due to the detailed reasonings and easy-to-check calculations of the book. This updated version of the book includes new findings and suggestions. With 280 pages and 100 figures, the main ideas are highlighted for quick reading.
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For about 1.5 million years humans have used fire and later mechanical means to make clearances in the forests for hunting, pastoralism or agriculture. The tropical areas receive very large solar radiation, so the deforested soils were quickly destroyed by heat and erosion, and now almost all former tropical forests and savannas are deserts (see figure on the right). They overheat in the tropical sun and their heat is amplified by the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. That overheated ground dries out the atmosphere above it and any humid wind coming from the ocean, so no rain can form above the 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 capturing atmospheric carbon into trees, while at the same time reducing the carbon gases emissions.
Albedo should only be used when considering all relevant parameters, otherwise it would appear that forests warm the Earth.
Some believe that water and its vapours would warm the Earth, while this study demonstrates that in fact, they are the most powerful coolers.
The effects of deforestation are calculated and shown to be so large, that they require water and vegetation be considered drivers of climate.
Conceptual simulations and continuous reality check allow to understand the role of water and how to use it to alleviate and restore the regional climate. It is also assumed that global climate is the result of all the regional climates.
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 estimations improve understanding and increase confidence in our ability of restoring the regional and global climate.
It is shown how water produces stronger cooling than its greenhouse effect. Trees have the greatest capacity to optimally manage water between the ground and the atmosphere, but their use must be balanced properly.
The first requirement is to stop net deforestation and forest fires; this way we can stop soil erosion and slow the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The second requirement is to start the revegetation of intertropical areas, sequestering carbon and re-balancing 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 will probably decrease Atlantic hurricanes.
Australia has a great capacity to recover from its past thousands of years 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.
An outstanding new analysis shows how agricultural production can be increased many fold both in terms of income and energy production (kcal) per hectare,
The new Unitary Rational Buildings (URB) are long-lasting, compact and self-contained cities, very economical in the long run, and have improved transportation.
The book offers specific solutions for: Maroc, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Central Africa, the USA, Australia, South America, Indonesia, and Somalia. If North Africa and Australia are revegetated for the benefit of both hemispheres, the global climate will react positively to such massive improvements, and re-balance.
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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