So. Climate change. Fixing climate change.
I have lived within about a two days walk of where I live now all my life except a few years as I reached adulthood, when I went and did war, like many societies force their young people to do.
But I came home to here. That matters.
I have lived within about a two days walk of where I live now all my life except a few years as I reached adulthood, when I went and did war, like many societies force their young people to do.
But I came home to here. That matters.
2. I don't think many Americans have a 3/4 of a century memory of one spot on Earth. I'm actually a year+ short of it myself, but close enough.
I've watched this spot on Earth degrade, non-stop, for almost three quarters of a century. It's changed a lot. It's sad.
I've watched this spot on Earth degrade, non-stop, for almost three quarters of a century. It's changed a lot. It's sad.
3. People are so busy saying that individual weather events don't prove blah blah that they don't look at the whole thing.
The wind is the worst part.
I'm not saying, "Well, climate change could create more powerful winds..." Blah blah science.
Let's do high school science.
The wind is the worst part.
I'm not saying, "Well, climate change could create more powerful winds..." Blah blah science.
Let's do high school science.
4. Somebody tell me how an active atmosphere could contain a greater amount of energy than before and *not* have increased winds.
It's not possible.
More energy, worse winds. All the time and on average.
It's not possible.
More energy, worse winds. All the time and on average.
5. One of the things energy in the atmosphere does is lift water into the air. Where it gets that water is, out of the land.
So, from some lower energy baseline, say for instance my 21st birthday, the water cycle has accelerated and intensified. More energy *must* do this.
So, from some lower energy baseline, say for instance my 21st birthday, the water cycle has accelerated and intensified. More energy *must* do this.
6. The temperature thing everybody is talking about - that's energy. If the number is bigger (it is) then there is a greater quantity of energy. Energy does work; more energy does more work.
Temperature is just one piece of it.
Temperature is just one piece of it.
7. I believe there is more added energy than temperature is able to measure or express. The temperature number is real. It doesn't measure the kinetic energy in moving air, which we call wind. But that's an energy just as real as thermal energy you can measure with a 🌡️
8. It rains harder than it used to. More of the water runs off. Harder rain = more water per hour. Soil can absorb <so much> water per hour, where <so much> is wildly variable, with concrete at zero.
I am shaping my soil as to slow the run-off and create pockets where it can sit
I am shaping my soil as to slow the run-off and create pockets where it can sit
9. The more organic matter - another word is carbon - so the more carbon there is in the soil, the more water that soil is able to absorb per hour.
Period. Direct relationship.
Your average industrial farm is about a zillionth of a step above concrete. Virtually no carbon.
Period. Direct relationship.
Your average industrial farm is about a zillionth of a step above concrete. Virtually no carbon.
10. And what carbon there is in industrial agriculture soil is escaping into the atmosphere at blinding speed. Ag soil is almost as big a source of atmospheric carbon as fossil fuels. Talking about fossil fuels is ridiculous.
11. We have a serious problem here, and either we address it or we don't. It is as plain as the nose on your face that the current conversation is based on not addressing our problem.
Here is the problem:
If we eliminate 100% of our fossil fuel emissions, we won't be half way.
Here is the problem:
If we eliminate 100% of our fossil fuel emissions, we won't be half way.
12. If we eliminate one hundred percent of our fossil fuel use tomorrow we will still be running headlong into an ecosystem catastrophe of untold dimension.
This is not extremism and it is not exaggeration.
Ask them. Ask the climate scientists who don't acknowledge I exist.
This is not extremism and it is not exaggeration.
Ask them. Ask the climate scientists who don't acknowledge I exist.
13. Somebody who's not blocked by Michael Mann ask him: if we eliminate fossil fuels, are we good? Did we win?
Just ask him.
The answer is no and everyone knows it.
Just ask him.
The answer is no and everyone knows it.
14. What humankind must do if we want to remain here is reintegrate ourselves into the natural systems which created and maintained the stable climate of the holocene.
There is no other scientifically supportable way to do it.
Whether we could do it in time if we started today 🤷
There is no other scientifically supportable way to do it.
Whether we could do it in time if we started today 🤷
15. People often ask me if I've read this or that, or viewed this or that video / movie. Probably not. As a repairman, which is how I look at this, I have enough information to design a solution. Addition, non-contradictory information, more of the same, isn't required.
16. The book I would ask everyone to read, instead, is easy and brief. It's a children's book, a true story, and it's the most important book in the world. 
17. If you'd like, I'll read it to you on YouTube. This is an authorized (by author and publisher) use of this book. I have their written permission.
Short 2-vid playlist. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Short 2-vid playlist. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
I think I'll go watch it so readers have time to. Then I'll continue.
Well, I won't continue. Suppertime. Later, y'all.
In the videos on the playlist I pretty much say it all. All you've gotta know.
Electric cars aren't part of the solution.
In the videos on the playlist I pretty much say it all. All you've gotta know.
Electric cars aren't part of the solution.
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