Water is often neglected and only seen as a symptom of climate change in the form of flooding or drought.
However, water is not only the cause of many of the destructive events we are seeing around the world, it is also the most important tool to turn things around.
Focusing on water provides us with the ability to build resilient landscapes that can handle extreme events such as droughts, floods and fires, as well as cool the world around us.
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Scientific Papers
HESS – Biotic pump of atmospheric moisture as driver of the hydrological cycle on land
Abstract. In this paper the basic geophysical and ecological principles are jointly analyzed that allow the landmasses of Earth to remain moistened sufficiently for terrestrial life to be possible. 1. Under gravity, land inevitably loses water to the ocean. To keep land moistened, the gravitational…
The Biotic Pump: Condensation, atmospheric dynamics and climate
Intense condensation associated with high evaporation from natural forest cover maintains regions of low atmospheric pressure on land. This causes moist air to flow from ocean to land, which compensates the river runoff. Deforestation induces large-scale desiccation by disrupting this flow. Here we…
How the Biotic Pump links the hydrological and the rainforest to climate : ¿Is it for real? ¿How can we prove it?.
the Biotic Pump Theory, as set forward by Drs. Makarieva and Gorshkov, states that the primary force driving surface winds, certainly in the tropics, is induced by the negative changes in atmospheric pressure caused by condensation of water vapour when clouds form. A high rate of condensation is nec…
Synergy between small‐ and large‐scale feedbacks of vegetation on the water cycle
Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal tackling issues such as sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.
Water for an integrative climate paradigm
By the logic of the New Water Paradigm (NWP), it is deforestation, industrial agriculture, and urbanisation that determine climate by draining land, so that more solar energy re-enters the atmosphere as sensible heat, rather than latent heat of evaporation. Human-made ‘hot plates’ lead to irregular…
THE NEW WATER PARADIGM – WATER FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE CLIMATE
Human activities have gradually altered the earths surface and with it brought about changes to the earth’s ecosystems. In Slovakia, millions of cubic metres of water are drained from the landscape every year causing changes to the country’s climate and natural environment.
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Precipitation recycling
The water cycle regulates and reflects natural variability in climate at the regional and global scales. Large-scale human activities that involve changes in land cover, such as tropical deforestatio…
Length and time scales of atmospheric moisture recycling
The most distinct seasonal differences can be observed over the Northern Hemisphere: in winter, moisture recycling is insignificant, whereas in summer it plays a major role in the climate. The length and time scales of atmospheric moisture recycling can be useful metrics to quantify local climatic effects of land use change.
Podcasts
Alpha Lo – What if water is more important than carbon – Investing in regenerative agriculture
A conversation with Alpha Lo, physicist and writer of the Climate Water Project, about the importance of slowing water down, the connection between drought, fire, and floods, and the massive role water plays in heating and cooling our planet.
Marcel de Berg – Water is a more important cooling factor than the heat of carbon – Investing in regenerative agriculture
A conversation with Marcel de Berg, founder of Green Water Cools, about the cooling potential of green water, avoiding regrets and focusing a bit of our attention and resources on restoring water cycles, biodiversity, and more.
Millán Millán – Farm water at its proper scale – Investing in regenerative agriculture
A conversation with Dr Millán Millán, director of the Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM), about restoring the small water cycle, why the summer storms and rains have disappeared and how this turned out to be connected to massive snows in the UK, and massive floods in Central Euro…
Zach Weiss – On a mission to train hundreds of thousands of people in key water restoration techniques – Investing in regenerative agriculture
A check-in interview with Zach Weiss, founder of Elemental Ecosystems and Water Stories, about his mission to train hundreds of thousands of people in key water restoration techniques, institutions, how would Zach make the space investable and bankable, and much more.
Walter Jehne, stop talking about carbon emissions and focus on restoring the water cycle – Investing in regenerative agriculture
Storing carbon in our soil at scale is absolutely possible and crucial. This is not due to the carbon drawdown but because it restores the soil sponge and our water cycle. In this episode of Investing in Regenerative Agriculture, we talk about the impact of regeneration on cooling the climate. We sh…