Plants, Soils and the Planet's Natural Hydrology are at the Core of Climate Control Focusing on the multidimensional nature of climate with its physical, chemical and biological aspects, Walter Jehne, an Australian agronomist, climatologist and microbiologist, places water, spongy soil aggregates and vegetation at the heart of Climate Control. This fresh Nature based way of looking at climate change provides a new and better understanding of many of the phenomena that often lack satisfactory explanations with models that put CO2 in the center: "why water, not CO2 and greenhouse gases (GHGs), is the dominant factor in climate phenomena", "Asian brown haze with 4% humidity, 90% relative humidity, and full of polluting smog", "Earth's decreasing albedo which increases global warming", "high-pressure heat domes over dry, barren areas","the role of agriculture in the destruction and restoration of desertifying ecosystems that are advancing all around the globe", "the crucial role of agriculture in overcoming Since 1900, terrestrial temperatures our climate crisis", or the drought and fire have risen more than 2x faster than maritime ones, since 1970 even ~3x crises in California which, without appropriate (1.5°C)! action, could lead to desertification and the collapse of its agricultural complex. On average, there is 60 times more water (up to ~120x) more water (H2O) than CO2 in the atmosphere (~25,000 vs 400 ppmv or 20 vs 0.8g/m3). Since 1970, the rise in mercury and popular have been on the rise. Even though we Their specific heat is 2.1 Joule/g for water and unrest are getting close to a critical point, progress and 0.8 J/g for CO2. Water has therefore an outlooks that go in the right direction are rare we seem to remain stuck with CO2 as the atmospheric heat value which is 65 times higher and main cause of Global Warming. than that of CO2. As far as the global infrared greenhouse effect is concerned, water dominates again by ~75 to 25%. The imbalance is even more pronounced with respect to their average residence time in the atmosphere. It is 8 to 10 days for the " liquid gold " against 100 to 300 years for CO2. Regarding the physicochemical properties and reactivity, the differences are again enormous. Between -80 and +80°C, CO2 is a relatively inert gas either mixed in with other gases or dissolved in a liquid or a solid, most often water with which it forms carbonic acid. Water, on the other hand, is by far the most abundant substance on the Blue Planet., It consists of a simple low mass ”Since water controls more than 95% of our planet's heat dynamics, our focus should be on water and the restoration of its cycles, not on CO2 emissions!” - WJ
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