American and the earth has entered uncharted global warming decade

[KenyanPlato]

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This is a fire city in Oregon. By the way no insurance is going to insure anything in Northern California without government backed gurantee..these places were not meant for human habitation. We have frayed the fragile ecosystem

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

KP it is not global warming per se what is causing havoc in California and the west coast but a faulty water cycle. Yes, you heard that right. I'm not discounting global warming but it is not as simplistic as the liberals want it to be. You need to read upon Water for the Recovery of the Climate - A New Water Paradigm.

[KenyanPlato]

Ac you have looking at a tree while missing the forest. The science is irrefutable on what is causing fires up west and in the artic circle. No need to introduce some other pseudo science like your legume theory. Stay away from untouched pseudo science

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

Ac you have looking at a tree while missing the forest. The science is irrefutable on what is causing fires up west and in the artic circle. No need to introduce some other pseudo science like your legume theory. Stay away from untouched pseudo science

Nuance, nuance, my fren! We are not disputing global warming but the models are missing one important element: WATER. The direct reason for climate change at present is considered to be mankind's production of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, hydrofluorocarbons). What has been neglected is water as an important greenhouse gas. Those so called sophisticated models don't take that into account because water circulation is very dynamic and complex. Water is considered to be a stable component of the atmosphere.

They are two killer apps available to mankind currently to forestall global climate change and they don't involve technology.

- Restoration of the water cycle; this would involve less paved over landscapes to allow more water to recharge aquifers instead of creating torrents of mini floods every time it rains, planting more trees for transpiration - think of the heat island effect in reverse, in the rural areas it would encourage covering up of soil with armor - i.e living or dead plant material to prevent top soil being carried away, no more ploughing, building of water reservoirs to act as giant air conditioners, among many other actions.

- Using livestock to holistically manage grasslands by mimicking nature. Before pastoralists moved in to and over grazed grasslands in so called marginal areas - dry and semi-arid part of the world, millions upon millions of herbivores grazed on the same landscapes without overgrazing it, they actually enriched it, those early Western explorers remarked on the abundance of grass on the plains of Africa that supported countless species of wildlife. Now Maasais can hardly eke out a living with their few cows. What changed? Bad management.