ECOLOGY REVOLUTION "Where The Industrial Revolution The Agricultural Revolution The Carbon Cycle and The Water Cycle meet" by John Zulaikha

THE ECOLOGY REVOLUTION
"Where the Industrial, Agricultural, Eco, Carbon and Water Cycles Meet"
John Zulaikha

THE CYCLES
THE THERMOREGULATOR
MILLIONS OF YEARS OF CO2 IN 150?
NEW WATER PARADIGM - SMALL WATER CYCLES
WE ARE LIVING IN A CARBON CYCLE
SOIL & WATER MANAGEMENT - A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE
CARBON SINKS, HEAT SINKS, HOTSPOTS & WATERSINKS™.
THE GREENING OF THE PLANET

THE CYCLES
We are living on a carbon planet in a carbon cycle in a water cycle, and these are planet life cycles. They are connected, they interact, they work together as one, they are Nature's forces interconnected by an invisible string.

Ecology Revolution's focus is on the New Water Paradigm. This new challenge is a natural extension of Soil Sequestration and Renewable Soil but focuses on the heat produced when water is moved or is missing. The New Water Paradigm, Planet Hotspots and WaterSinks™ draw attention to the intersection of the carbon and water cycles - that the Carbon Cycle is inextricably linked with the Water Cycle.

We have failed to see the interrelation of natural forces that drive water and carbon;
We have underestimated the complex relationship between the Cycles;
We practice altering nature's natural energy flow, (without seeing the interconnections break) Let's not miss the opportunity to adjust Man's unseen footprint in water.

Star Wars made it clear, "They came from behind!"

The NWP draws attention to the planet's water system, specifically to the phenomena; that land without water that is exposed to the sun will accumulate heat. The focus is on soil regeneration and water recovery by the use of the small water cycle.
THE THERMOREGULATOR
There is need for immediate action to restore small water cycles. As WATER is the THERMOREGULATOR of the planet - the mechanism that directly affects the planet's soil temperature, which underpins food production whilst a contributing planet warmer.

WATER
The Thermoregulator of the Planet.
With a cool moist cloth,
A mother cools her baby's fever
So too we must apply the same to the planet.

MILLIONS OF YEARS OF CO2 IN 150?

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's climate scientists tell us CO2 is driving Climate Change. We are burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, and this is increasing CO2 levels in the greenhouse leading to extreme weather changes caused by heat - therefore Climate Change is man-made.
I often hear CO2 referred to as pollution, of course it is not, but there is a false logic shifting perception to refer to it as pollution eg. "CO2 is driving global warming - there's too much pollution!!"
The soot and carbon particles are pollution. CO2 is not pollution, not at all, it's plant fertilizer, as essential to life as water and air and demonizing CO2 is totally misleading. CO2 is part of the Carbon Cycle and it should be well understood the world is a carbon factory - that we are playing "in" the Carbon Cycle.

I attended a short talk by an Al Gore Climate Project Presenter, but with no mention of a Carbon Cycle throughout the lecture, I asked if the training included anything on the Carbon Cycle. What was the Carbon Cycle? was his response. Lecturing about carbon that is lacking in basic Carbon Cycle knowledge is presenting a near impossible balanced viewpoint.

Of course, digging up millions of years of coal, burning it and throwing it into the air - in as little as 150 years - does paint a convincing "logical" story that CO2 is a significant driver of change, but since we are carbon living on a carbon planet, the Climate Change story must include the Carbon Cycle, which must include the Water Cycle since they are inextricably linked... and there's the rub. Water, the thermoregulator of the planet is missing in the climate change conversation, except to say there is never enough.

NEW WATER PARADIGM - THE SMALL WATER CYCLE

The New Water Paradigm is to explain another climate change problem, but preoccupied as we are with CO2, the Water Paradigm is off the radar. It may be so serious that it could be escalated to a top priority if it is recognized as a climate change imperative.

As you know, evaporation provides a cooling effect. You can easily experience cooling by applying a damp cloth to your face on a hot day. The evaporation of the water on your face takes some of your heat energy at the same time and dissipates it into the air, and you are a bit cooler. Many systems use water to cool, like air-conditioners and car radiators.

When land is without water, there is no water to evaporate and cool. Without lands' natural air-conditioning, the sun's heat accumulates and warms the land. Instead of dissipating heat through evaporation, accumulating heat dries the land further... and a feedback cycle of land degradation can slip into desertification. Of course the solution is water - but the rainfall is attracted by cooler pastures - and the small water cycle has moved on.

Without the awareness of the New Water Paradigm; without knowing about nature's natural energy flow, it goes unseen. In a liquid cooled computer, water is distributed via tubes in and around the computer - so too the planet is the same - an internet-like connectivity of water flows around the planet, throughout the land and the sky and the oceans. We are emmersed in water.

It will come at no surprise then, to hear that water is the Thermoregulator of the Planet, yet no attention is drawn to this. When water is removed from the circuit - or a river is re-directed - heat moves in - and soil, being a good insulator will accumulate heat - and no attention is drawn to this. Heat Accumulation is recognized by farmers, an indicator of when to plant seeds, but on a global level continues to go unseen. Interestingly as a side effect the real damage is to the land itself culminating as desertification. This is not a future Climate Change problem, it is now, but we have yet to connect the dots from CO2 to water.

Oblivious to this, we continue to place all our eggs in one CO2 basket, and to compound matters worse, rain water is essentially directed out to sea - rather it should be used to wet the soil where it falls to promote the small water cycle, to restore the life activity the water flows brings. Carbon, light and water is the solar microbial mechanism enabling conversion from desert to oasis. Growing is the need to understand the Small Water Cycle.

WE ARE LIVING IN A CARBON CYCLE

We breath in oxygen and breath out CO2. All animals do - and plants breath in CO2 and expel air - so we can breath. It's a cycle. CO2 is part of the cycle of life - and it still is. Next time you hear news about how CO2 is pollution, you know it's nothing of the sort, it's an essential part of our lives... it's just that there's more. Don't get me wrong, too much CO2 will kill you, but so will too much oxygen or water... but there is a natural flow for CO2, since it is in a continuous and never-ending cycle.

CO2 is heavier than air, that's why it sinks to the surface of the planet - right down to the *ground - where it is transformed with the help of light and photosynthesis into plants trees shrubs soil seaweed algae and just about everything - we are living carbon on a living carbon planet factory. Trees grow big, die, return to the earth, get carbon crushed over millions of years and becomes coals, oils and diamonds to mention a few - it's all carbon.

Because soil relies on chemicals derived from oil to grow the crops that we eat - when the oil runs out - so does the food.

SOIL & WATER MANAGEMENT - A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE

As with all systems we must keep clear the passage of travel - the heart pumps blood, but the arteries and veins need to be clear to allow flow - any blockage and the body breaks down.

The same applies to the planet - the planet's carbon heart pumps carbon from gas to liquid to solid - we dig it up, burn it and release the energy into gas - and to work properly - to flow - the passage for CO2 needs to be clear.

A blockage will cause a build up of CO2 in the atmosphere - because it has no other place to go. The sea is filling and more CO2 will make it acidic. The sky is filling, that's warming - and the ground is dry [again note: without carbon in the soil, soil cannot absorb water] and according to Dr Rattan Lal Director Carbon Management and Sequestration Center/FAES, OARDC The Ohio State University. "Actions that improve soil and water quality, enhance agronomic productivity and reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases are truly a win-win situation. It is true that soil sequestration is a short-term solution to the problem of gaseous emissions. In the long term, reducing emissions from the burning of fossil fuels by developing alternative energy sources is the only solution. For the next 50 years, however, soil sequestration is a very cost-effective option, a "bridge to the future" that buys us time in which to develop those alternative energy options."

SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION
BY AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY LAND USES
TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE

TESTIMONY OF Rattan Lal
Director Carbon Management and Sequestration Center/FAES, OARDC
The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210
http://epw.senate.gov/108th/Lal_070803.htm || local PDF

Any electrical engineer or school kid interested in electronics could guess, when there's too much heat generated by the circuit... "we need a heat sink". The term Carbon Sink is well known and essentially is a heat sink, but in this case WaterSinks™ will also cool the planet and at the same time restore a healthy eco system.

CARBON SINKS, HEAT SINKS, HOTSPOTS & WATERSINKS™..
Soil actually performs 3 essential functions via the Carbon and Water Cycles. Healthy soil contains millions of microbes and is well saturated. Healthy soil breathes in the CO2, sequesters and manufactures carbon - and healthy soil has saturated water that the sun evaporates providing a cooling effect, and then soil acts as both carbon and heat sinks.

But the practice and use of soil has changed: land has been cleared of trees and modern farming technology cause soils to become dependent on chemical fertilisers. We used to leave the land "fallow" for a season or 2 to recover, but now we throw more fertilizer at it until the soil is exhausted.

Soils role in the cycle of carbon - the Carbon Cycle - has been reversed. Healthy soil sequesters CO2 while unhealthy soil emits CO2.

There are a few knock-on effects, the dry soil has no water to evaporate and cool the land, and so it heats up. The air above the land warms and rises. What goes up must come down, so cool air descends somewhere else. This "pump" action moves a lot of air causing wind. Wind blows across the land and sea causing havoc.

Rain tends not to fall over "hotspots" as rain likes cooler air to condense from vapour to drops. The oceans are colder, and more rain falling there would account for less fresh water available on land. It's also worth mentioning water that does fall on the land should be used in place to promote small water cycles, instead of draining or moving the water elsewhere or out to sea. The dryer land causes us to use our stored water aquifers - and there are huge consequences if we empty them - and lack of rain is thinning the lens of fresh water available, becoming saltier and any chemicals used in farming and/or fracking accumulates and concentrates.

It's a circular never-ending spiraling catch-22.

The dry land becomes hot, heated by the sun, if there is no moisture to relieve the heat, the cycle of drought is in place, which leads to lifelessness. The soil gives up it's life force, it's CO2, and expels it to the atmosphere. A secondary reaction occurs, as the soil cannot retain CO2, it also cannot retain water. No water, no moisture to evaporate and cool the land. The land becomes a desert or hotspot.

That's what is different.
That's what has changed.

Soil has since millenium been a carbon sequester - breathing in carbon and burying it to become coal or oil - but now it has become a carbon emitter, and cannot retain water for cooling, which leads to warming and large wind cycles..

As the world marvels at the pace China is moving, China sets the example of what is achievable. All we need is the attitude of China.

Fix the soil with any number of eco systems solutions designed for the specific place, and we fix global warming (or at least buy us time - because soil also has a limit to how much CO2 it can hold - but - healthy soils that absorb CO2 can drink the water that evaporates and cools the land to calm the winds and bring the eco system into equilibrium.

If man made the soil poor, then man can make the soil rich again.

Using soil as a carbon sink is a win win because we can produce more food and cool the globe - and this will buy the time needed while we changeover to renewable energy.

THE GREENING OF THE PLANET
The good news is if we restore soil to it's natural healthy state on a global scale, soil would absorb all the excess CO2, plants would thrive and grow more food without added external chemical fertilizers which seep into our waterways - and all that greening will cool the globe... and also most importantly, we will buy the time to changeover to cleaner sustainable renewables.

How do we do this, you might ask?
RENEWABLE SOIL