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A three day symposium in partnership with Bio4Climate https://bio4climate.org/ and the Eco Restoration Alliance. https://bio4climate.org/era/ | |||
The first episode of Cooling Climate Chaos is about the new climate story. Greenhouse gases heat up the planet, but there is another more important factor which is largely overlooked. It is water in its movements and changes of state (ice, liquid water and vapour) as it interacts with biodiverse plant life and the atmosphere. This interaction has enormous stabilising and cooling effects. Once we understand the full force of plants and the water cycle, we can confront the climate crisis with a whole new set of measures. Plants, healthy soils, and healthy ecosystems stabilise weather, the climate and bring cooling. We can leverage these qualities to fight the climate crisis. | |||
Important elements to understand are the biotic pump phenomenon and the fact that all healthy ecosystems make clouds, rain and export heat into the outer atmosphere and into space. Once we understand this, we can see that massive ecosystem restoration around the world can stabilise the climate, decrease extreme weather events and shocks to global food production and all these measures together can even keep the temperature rise under 1.5 degree centigrade and we can even bow the curve down. | |||
Presenters | |||
Peter Bunyard is emeritus professor at 82 years old and has worked together with James Lovelock and is an adept of the Gaia Theory. He has proven the existence of the Biotic Pump function. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Bunyard | |||
Rob de Laet is a climate activist who is developing a plan to reverse the path to collapse our biosphere and societies are on. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robdelaet/ | |||
Eliza Collin is an artist, designer and researcher focusing on sustainable solutions especially around water and biodiversity. https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliza-collin/ | |||
Co-convener: | |||
Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University | |||
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To make a voluntary contribution to support the partner organizations and the Humanity Rising team, please see our contribution form. | |||
Each Zoom live webinar will have a maximum capacity of 500 participants. If you are not able to join on Zoom, we will be live streaming here on the UbiVerse and on: | |||
UU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversity | |||
Category | |||
Community Ecology Sustainability | |||
A three day symposium in partnership with Bio4Climate https://bio4climate.org/ and the Eco Restoration Alliance. https://bio4climate.org/era/ | A three day symposium in partnership with Bio4Climate https://bio4climate.org/ and the Eco Restoration Alliance. https://bio4climate.org/era/ | ||
The first episode of Cooling Climate Chaos is about the new climate story. Greenhouse gases heat up the planet, but there is another more important factor which is largely overlooked. It is water in its movements and changes of state (ice, liquid water and vapour) as it interacts with biodiverse plant life and the atmosphere. This interaction has enormous stabilising and cooling effects. Once we understand the full force of plants and the water cycle, we can confront the climate crisis with a whole new set of measures. Plants, healthy soils, and healthy ecosystems stabilise weather, the climate and bring cooling. We can leverage these qualities to fight the climate crisis. | The first episode of Cooling Climate Chaos is about the new climate story. Greenhouse gases heat up the planet, but there is another more important factor which is largely overlooked. It is water in its movements and changes of state (ice, liquid water and vapour) as it interacts with biodiverse plant life and the atmosphere. This interaction has enormous stabilising and cooling effects. Once we understand the full force of plants and the water cycle, we can confront the climate crisis with a whole new set of measures. Plants, healthy soils, and healthy ecosystems stabilise weather, the climate and bring cooling. We can leverage these qualities to fight the climate crisis. | ||
Revision as of 19:19, 14 May 2023
A three day symposium in partnership with Bio4Climate https://bio4climate.org/ and the Eco Restoration Alliance. https://bio4climate.org/era/ The first episode of Cooling Climate Chaos is about the new climate story. Greenhouse gases heat up the planet, but there is another more important factor which is largely overlooked. It is water in its movements and changes of state (ice, liquid water and vapour) as it interacts with biodiverse plant life and the atmosphere. This interaction has enormous stabilising and cooling effects. Once we understand the full force of plants and the water cycle, we can confront the climate crisis with a whole new set of measures. Plants, healthy soils, and healthy ecosystems stabilise weather, the climate and bring cooling. We can leverage these qualities to fight the climate crisis. Important elements to understand are the biotic pump phenomenon and the fact that all healthy ecosystems make clouds, rain and export heat into the outer atmosphere and into space. Once we understand this, we can see that massive ecosystem restoration around the world can stabilise the climate, decrease extreme weather events and shocks to global food production and all these measures together can even keep the temperature rise under 1.5 degree centigrade and we can even bow the curve down. Presenters Peter Bunyard is emeritus professor at 82 years old and has worked together with James Lovelock and is an adept of the Gaia Theory. He has proven the existence of the Biotic Pump function. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Bunyard Rob de Laet is a climate activist who is developing a plan to reverse the path to collapse our biosphere and societies are on. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robdelaet/ Eliza Collin is an artist, designer and researcher focusing on sustainable solutions especially around water and biodiversity. https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliza-collin/ Co-convener: Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University --- To make a voluntary contribution to support the partner organizations and the Humanity Rising team, please see our contribution form. Each Zoom live webinar will have a maximum capacity of 500 participants. If you are not able to join on Zoom, we will be live streaming here on the UbiVerse and on: UU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversity Category Community Ecology Sustainability
A three day symposium in partnership with Bio4Climate https://bio4climate.org/ and the Eco Restoration Alliance. https://bio4climate.org/era/ The first episode of Cooling Climate Chaos is about the new climate story. Greenhouse gases heat up the planet, but there is another more important factor which is largely overlooked. It is water in its movements and changes of state (ice, liquid water and vapour) as it interacts with biodiverse plant life and the atmosphere. This interaction has enormous stabilising and cooling effects. Once we understand the full force of plants and the water cycle, we can confront the climate crisis with a whole new set of measures. Plants, healthy soils, and healthy ecosystems stabilise weather, the climate and bring cooling. We can leverage these qualities to fight the climate crisis. Important elements to understand are the biotic pump phenomenon and the fact that all healthy ecosystems make clouds, rain and export heat into the outer atmosphere and into space. Once we understand this, we can see that massive ecosystem restoration around the world can stabilise the climate, decrease extreme weather events and shocks to global food production and all these measures together can even keep the temperature rise under 1.5 degree centigrade and we can even bow the curve down. Presenters Peter Bunyard is emeritus professor at 82 years old and has worked together with James Lovelock and is an adept of the Gaia Theory. He has proven the existence of the Biotic Pump function. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Bunyard Rob de Laet is a climate activist who is developing a plan to reverse the path to collapse our biosphere and societies are on. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robdelaet/ Eliza Collin is an artist, designer and researcher focusing on sustainable solutions especially around water and biodiversity. https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliza-collin/ Co-convener: Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University --- To make a voluntary contribution to support the partner organizations and the Humanity Rising team, please see our contribution form. Each Zoom live webinar will have a maximum capacity of 500 participants. If you are not able to join on Zoom, we will be live streaming here on the UbiVerse and on: UU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversity Category Community Ecology Sustainability