Forget Co2,methane, etc.
The real problem is the loss of vegetation from vast areas of once fertile and productive land, now transformed into arid environments that have a huge resulting deficit in rainfall, and when it does rain in these areas, flash floods cause even more of the fertile soil to be washed away. Arid lands heat up and return the suns energy to the atmosphere and cool rapidly at night. The returned heat to the atmosphere than goes on to have a serious effect on the weather patterns.
Hell, if it's not raining in the new deserts where is all that extra rain going to fall? You got it! on a land that has tree and grass cover, producing the now ever more familiar floods, while other parts of the world experience the opposite. Cutting co2 output isn’t going to do jack to help the changing weather patterns, in fact making the air cleaner is going to help the suns energy to reach the sandy soils more effectively if anything.
But there we go.
Address the ever expanding deserts by arresting their progress and reversing the loss of vegetation and we shall see a more even distribution of annual rainfall, while at the same time provide areas of land for growing food, oil crops, and forestry to feed the starving millions, generate employment and wealth.
None of the past great civilisations realised this simpe code of survival! All of them perrished by over exploiting the soils! We are now doing it on a global scale so where the feck do we go? Mars?
Every house built, every road layed, every driveway, every runway, every car park,every factory, every warehouse,every vehicle roof and bonnet, all return heat back to the atmosphere. This needs to be offset now by reforesting the deserts!
Andrew K Fletcher
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