Cursing in the climate church
On May 17, 2022, KATHO held a symposium on climate change and climate change.
we The idea that half of the rise is due to the melting of the land glaciers and the other half to the expanding of the existing ocean water.
This 50/50 split just didn’t taste right to me. It even made me curse!
Show me the water!
For years and years, deeper aquifers have been being pumped up for irrigation water ( that typical windmill in Australia ). On a vast scale, agriculture in the US is channeling water that has been in the earth for centuries to the sea, however by a shortcut. Water storage by jungle has been vastly underrated. Deforestation, for example, is a heavily underestimated trigger of water runoff to the ocean. The Amazon is now responsible for nearly half of all the fresh water that runs into the sea via rivers. Each second, it discharges 200 000 m³ of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean, followed by the Congo with a poor 40 000 m³. In comparison, the Scheldt discharges 120 m³ of fresh water per second into the North Sea.
Yet another incalculably naked fact. Where did all this water from these dried-out lakes go? Maybe it’s just a few droplets on a hot plate!
But fill up an Aral, Turkana and/or Chad lake back to the level of the 60’s?!
Hey Greta, why don’t we refill the Dead Sea!
Concrete stop is tricky but what about the perforating of the massive concrete slab on Belgian soil?
By buffering in retaining basins you can hold back a lot of water. Kontich has already provided ‘refuge’ for 17 million liters.
What about proactive infiltration of dryer parts of the Earth’s crust?
On the smallest scale, larger planting boxes and tree beds can already work miracles.
On a somewhat larger scale, you can actively recharge the deeper groundwater tables.
A step up? Then we get to reforesting projects in dry regions.
How many wetlands have not been dried up for building projects, so where has that water gone? Exactly yes! The mandatory dumping of pumping water into streams is just a stopgap measure, because it flows to the sea anyway. Through the sewer system it is indeed more quickly to its final destination, that’s true.
How many km² polders have not been reclaimed from the sea? That is a lever ( microscopic but still ). The Dutch polders, artificial islands in and around Japan. Talking about windmills. With these, those tin Australian wind organs pale into insignificance.
And what about nature itself? Silt deposits, we can’t say that the Yellow Plain or Bangladesh are `rim’ surfaces.
I worry that this 50/50 split of the climate church is not defendable. Man is an Anthropogenic force, true.
So why not use that science for the common benefit and interest?
your geographer
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