Heavily researched does not guarantee correct. Even one erroneous assumption in common renders pages of references, papers and citations useless. CAGW’s GHE contains three such assumptions.
GHE claims without it Earth becomes 33 C cooler, a 255 K, -18 C, ball of ice.
Wrong.
Naked Earth would be much like the Moon, barren, 400 K lit side, 100 K dark.
TFK_bams09 heat balance graphic uses the same 63 twice violating GAAP and calculating out of thin air a 396 BB/333 “back”/63 net GHE radiative forcing loop violating LoT 1 & 2.
Wrong.
Likewise, the ubiquitous plethora of clones.
GHE requires Earth to radiate “extra” energy as a BB.
Wrong.
A BB requires all energy leaving the system to do so by radiation. Per TFK_bams09 60% leaves by kinetic modes, i.e. conduction, convection, advection and latent rendering BB impossible.
GHE is bogus and CAGW a scam so alarmists must resort to fear mongering, lies, lawsuits, censorship and violence.
I hope much of the world follows your lead in its relationships with rivers and other sacred places. Thank you, Jackie. NZ was a second home to me for many years, and I miss it.
This resonated “But it also serves as a symbol for change in these precipitous times, as the hot mess we’re making of water cycles disrupts all of life and affects the well-being of the waterways right before our eyes. When the rivers aren’t right, nothing is right.”
We have a Watershed Plan in our county in cooperation with the local Native American tribes. I am so happy about that. What I would like to see is Water cycle restoration projects.
Last year, when the fires were burning through L.A., my wife and I happened on a solution that one man, Zachary Weiss, used to keep his property from burning up in the fires. Zach has a website called Water Stories and it turns out his solution works on a small scale private property and scales up on a larger county or watershed basis as well.
I have been wondering if this water cycle restoration solution might be helpful to Watershed Planning?
This solution says that Climate Change isn’t just a carbon issue. It is also a water cycle issue. This is a less than 3 minute video on the problem.
One person who observed and implemented this water cycle restoration over a number of decades is Sepp Holzer. He lives in Austria. His story is pretty amazing, and I find his view on nature and the earth inspiring. Sepp speaks High German I think, so this video has some English subtitles. It lasts less than 6 minutes.
Sepp worked with the unique identity of the land which is how he was successful with land no one else wanted.
He learned what worked in that specific bioregion and took powerful action steps to shift the direction of the land and farm in positive ways.
He brought out the latent potential of the land with water.
Sepp's main points are living system alignment, presence, continuous learning, and renewal.
He discarded “power over” for “power with” and stewardship with nature. Essentially, he listened to nature and responded accordingly.
This next video is about a farm in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon where these water cycle restoration projects have been done over time. It works, and it’s good to see it happening here. This video is 6 minutes.
These projects show that you can do small decentralized projects that are interconnected and they can help the rivers and raise the aquifer tables.
It doesn’t have to be about building large reservoirs.
Farmers and others can get into a relationship with the land where they take water in a balanced way and give it with reciprocity.
This solution potentially gives the watershed what it needs to evolve and adapt to stress.
Here is a link to more and longer films you can access on the Water Stories website. This work is so encouraging. It seems like there are some educational opportunities and/or partnerships possible here as well.
Water Stories offers educational opportunities so you can do your own Water Cycle Restoration projects.
FYI: I am not a contractor or a salesperson, and I have no financial or any other ties with the folks at Water Stories.
You can access Water Stories video library with your email. They have more in depth videos.
Also, the link below is to a website where Water Cycle Restoration has been going on in India since 1975. I think there is a Water Stories film about it. Their before and after photos under “Water Conservation”’is really something that has to be seen. Also, they have done a good job capturing metrics on their substantial progress. They talk about self reliant communities in harmony with nature.
This resonated “But it also serves as a symbol for change in these precipitous times, as the hot mess we’re making of water cycles disrupts all of life and affects the well-being of the waterways right before our eyes. When the rivers aren’t right, nothing is right.
We have a Watershed Plan in our county in cooperation with the local Native American tribes. I am so happy about that. What I would like to see is Water cycle restoration projects.
Last year, when the fires were burning through L.A., my wife and I happened on a solution that one man, Zachary Weiss, used to keep his property from burning up in the fires. Zach has a website called Water Stories and it turns out his solution works on a small scale private property and scales up on a larger county or watershed basis as well.
I have been wondering if this water cycle restoration solution might be helpful to Watershed Planning?
This solution says that Climate Change isn’t just a carbon issue. It is also a water cycle issue. This is a less than 3 minute video on the problem.
One person who observed and implemented this water cycle restoration over a number of decades is Sepp Holzer. He lives in Austria. His story is pretty amazing, and I find his view on nature and the earth inspiring. Sepp speaks High German I think, so this video has some English subtitles. It lasts less than 6 minutes.
Sepp worked with the unique identity of the land which is how he was successful with land no one else wanted.
He learned what worked in that specific bioregion and took powerful action steps to shift the direction of the land and farm in positive ways.
He brought out the latent potential of the land with water.
Sepp's main points are living system alignment, presence, continuous learning, and renewal.
He discarded “power over” for “power with” and stewardship with nature. Essentially, he listened to nature and responded accordingly.
This next video is about a farm in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon where these water cycle restoration projects have been done over time. It works, and it’s good to see it happening here. This video is 6 minutes.
These projects show that you can do small decentralized projects that are interconnected and they can help the rivers and raise the aquifer tables.
It doesn’t have to be about building large reservoirs.
Farmers and others can get into a relationship with the land where they take water in a balanced way and give it with reciprocity.
This solution potentially gives the watershed what it needs to evolve and adapt to stress.
Here is a link to more and longer films you can access on the Water Stories website. This work is so encouraging. It seems like there are some educational opportunities and/or partnerships possible here as well.
Water Stories offers educational opportunities so you can do your own Water Cycle Restoration projects.
FYI: I am not a contractor or a salesperson, and I have no financial or any other ties with the folks at Water Stories.
You can access Water Stories video library with your email. They have more in depth videos.
Also, the link below is to a website where Water Cycle Restoration has been going on in India since 1975. I think there is a Water Stories film about it. Their before and after photos under “Water Conservation”’is really something that has to be seen. Also, they have done a good job capturing metrics on their substantial progress. They talk about self reliant communities in harmony with nature.
Thank you, Ben, for offering me and other readers so many interesting sources. I look forward to digging in when I have time. I'm glad to hear of so much good work being done with a water and watershed consciousness.
“Border walls cut through habitats like swords through flesh”. If I could “think like a watershed”, I would choose Memphremagog Watershed ,
at the very tip of northern VT. It would indeed be interesting to know how it feels, how it reacts to having VT’s largest landfill operation, for many years, dump leachate into its tributaries. Casella Waste Management , I believe they are also the captain of the ship in Maine, more the pirate of the ship. Though they pick up compost, they are not at all kind to the environment, as their bottom line is greed and profit ( sounds familiar). Their numbers in acreage ,the tons of buried waste, massive expansion, the amount of leachate processed, the lack of detailed studies over the years, and their proximity to the magnificent multi glacial
lakes, Memphremagog Watershed, 687 square miles, one quarter of it in VT, the rest lies in Quebec . In the summer, we bring our garbage to this landfill just south of Newport,VT. We pass many of these small tributaries , gorgeous wetlands, forests, wilderness, but as the looming mountain that is Casella becomes ever closer, it is impossible to think that all the land surrounding is not absorbing toxins into it’s tributaries and every inch of wetland. Supposedly there are stricter guidelines put in place over the last few years, but there has already been outflow of leachate into this once pristine watershed for years before. If watersheds could talk, this one would have a much darker story to tell. Its voice, rising from the depths of the wet earth that cradles it from below, would be hoarse, choked from sludge and liquid waste ever seeping through its massive body. Whenever I drive by, I think of Tolkien,The Lord of the Rings; Mount Doom in Mordor, the deep caverns where evil lurks in the fiery fissures below. Thank you as always ,Jason , eloquently written. Thanks for the book recommendation, I have Mountains of the Mind.
Thank you, Lor, for responding with such feeling about your watershed. So many - most, really - around the world torqued by pollutants and trash. Casella is the beast responsible for spreading so much PFAS-contaminated mulch around the state, contaminating wells (like my parents') and so much more. (The state and feds played a role too, of course.)
The good news is that watershed can heal if we let them, and esp. if we help them.
Anything by Macfarlane is worth your time. Check out Underlands too.
“Thinking like a watershed, it turns out, provides a low-altitude overview effect.” I love this—and in many ways, could replace “thinking like a watershed” with “adopting animism” with the same effect. When I tap into the interconnected life force in everything, how even these words I write now are carried on pollen and shared breath, it’s nearly impossible to not feel awe.
You also inspired me to explore more about my area’s watershed—living on a ridge, I knew our water didn’t come from the Tualatin or Willamette Valley watersheds. But is it only from the sky up here? Even if that sky water from millennia ago is now underground in deep aquifers? Do watersheds ever “run uphill” or are we truly only receiving water from snowmelt and sky? I’m fascinated and must dig deeper.
Great essay, Jason. Watershed management is not just an ecological problem. Many of our social-political boundaries are bounded and bordered by water because it was easier to stay on one side of it. Thus we have multiple states and countries dumping uncontrollably into the same waterways and pointing fingers at each other. Our political entities should be defined by watershed boundaries so they can be managed as a single unit. Unfortunately, their limits/divides are more difficult to define. My recent post demonstrates how conflicting jurisdiction contributed to the devastation of oysters and watermen: https://ecologistatlarge.substack.com/p/25-14-the-incredible-edible-oyster .
Thank you, Brad. You raise such a good point about how our artificial boundaries make life difficult for real life. I love the idea of redefining political boundaries by watershed. That would be sensible management. And thanks for the link. I hope it brings more of my readers your way.
Beautiful essay. Thank you so much. And thank you for the references and links. This is the first essay of yours I have had the pleasure of reading and I hope I don’t miss any of them. 💖
Thank you, Jacquelyn. Welcome to the Field Guide. Feel free to dig around the archives. I'm happy to point you toward particular pieces if you have specific interests.
Thanks for the shout out. Great minds think alike...and I guess we do, too! And, of course, I enjoyed your thoughts on watersheds. Loved these lines. "When the rivers aren’t right, nothing is right. And then, as we tear down dams or clean up rivers, we work to initiate a social tipping point for our communities to reconnect to the land they occupy."
You have convinced me to order McFarlane’s latest book. I have loved his last books — very thoughtful and deep discoveries of our world… What’s left of it.
Thanks, Paula. You can't go wrong with any of Macfarlane's writing. I just hope he's read widely enough that folks not in our choir hear him and heed him.
Heavily researched does not guarantee correct. Even one erroneous assumption in common renders pages of references, papers and citations useless. CAGW’s GHE contains three such assumptions.
GHE claims without it Earth becomes 33 C cooler, a 255 K, -18 C, ball of ice.
Wrong.
Naked Earth would be much like the Moon, barren, 400 K lit side, 100 K dark.
TFK_bams09 heat balance graphic uses the same 63 twice violating GAAP and calculating out of thin air a 396 BB/333 “back”/63 net GHE radiative forcing loop violating LoT 1 & 2.
Wrong.
Likewise, the ubiquitous plethora of clones.
GHE requires Earth to radiate “extra” energy as a BB.
Wrong.
A BB requires all energy leaving the system to do so by radiation. Per TFK_bams09 60% leaves by kinetic modes, i.e. conduction, convection, advection and latent rendering BB impossible.
GHE is bogus and CAGW a scam so alarmists must resort to fear mongering, lies, lawsuits, censorship and violence.
Another great read. I’m eager to read Macfarland’s book too, and love all the synchronous watershed pieces lately. Thanks for adding your voice.
Here’s an old piece about watershed awareness (forgive the snarky intro): https://juliegabrielli.substack.com/p/every-map-tells-a-story?utm_source=publication-search
Looking forward to reading this, Julie. Thank you.
In Aotearoa New Zealand we have granted the Whanganui river legal status as a living entity ("personhood"). It's a step forward! https://natlib.govt.nz/he-tohu/learning/social-inquiry-resources/cultural-interaction/cultural-interaction-supporting-activities-and-resources/change-maker-whanganui-river
I hope much of the world follows your lead in its relationships with rivers and other sacred places. Thank you, Jackie. NZ was a second home to me for many years, and I miss it.
This resonated “But it also serves as a symbol for change in these precipitous times, as the hot mess we’re making of water cycles disrupts all of life and affects the well-being of the waterways right before our eyes. When the rivers aren’t right, nothing is right.”
We have a Watershed Plan in our county in cooperation with the local Native American tribes. I am so happy about that. What I would like to see is Water cycle restoration projects.
Last year, when the fires were burning through L.A., my wife and I happened on a solution that one man, Zachary Weiss, used to keep his property from burning up in the fires. Zach has a website called Water Stories and it turns out his solution works on a small scale private property and scales up on a larger county or watershed basis as well.
I have been wondering if this water cycle restoration solution might be helpful to Watershed Planning?
This solution says that Climate Change isn’t just a carbon issue. It is also a water cycle issue. This is a less than 3 minute video on the problem.
https://youtu.be/TvHco_GL4Mo?si=_7TzG-L8m72mTw5J
This is a less than 2 minute video overviewing the solution and its positive impacts.
https://youtu.be/WxKIQs-t-o0?si=Bp4oRkQydFX90hjw
One person who observed and implemented this water cycle restoration over a number of decades is Sepp Holzer. He lives in Austria. His story is pretty amazing, and I find his view on nature and the earth inspiring. Sepp speaks High German I think, so this video has some English subtitles. It lasts less than 6 minutes.
https://youtu.be/yrpA0eFhscM?si=2UOp5xb_5yvJSKxG
Sepp worked with the unique identity of the land which is how he was successful with land no one else wanted.
He learned what worked in that specific bioregion and took powerful action steps to shift the direction of the land and farm in positive ways.
He brought out the latent potential of the land with water.
Sepp's main points are living system alignment, presence, continuous learning, and renewal.
He discarded “power over” for “power with” and stewardship with nature. Essentially, he listened to nature and responded accordingly.
This next video is about a farm in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon where these water cycle restoration projects have been done over time. It works, and it’s good to see it happening here. This video is 6 minutes.
https://youtu.be/WPgC_ZUtLzk?si=DvuRLEJtJLRKDUno
These projects show that you can do small decentralized projects that are interconnected and they can help the rivers and raise the aquifer tables.
It doesn’t have to be about building large reservoirs.
Farmers and others can get into a relationship with the land where they take water in a balanced way and give it with reciprocity.
This solution potentially gives the watershed what it needs to evolve and adapt to stress.
Here is a link to more and longer films you can access on the Water Stories website. This work is so encouraging. It seems like there are some educational opportunities and/or partnerships possible here as well.
https://www.waterstories.com/stories?category=videos
Water Stories offers educational opportunities so you can do your own Water Cycle Restoration projects.
FYI: I am not a contractor or a salesperson, and I have no financial or any other ties with the folks at Water Stories.
You can access Water Stories video library with your email. They have more in depth videos.
Also, the link below is to a website where Water Cycle Restoration has been going on in India since 1975. I think there is a Water Stories film about it. Their before and after photos under “Water Conservation”’is really something that has to be seen. Also, they have done a good job capturing metrics on their substantial progress. They talk about self reliant communities in harmony with nature.
https://tarunbharatsangh.in/?mc_cid=5b1063f587&mc_eid=29170f2e25
There are solutions.
This resonated “But it also serves as a symbol for change in these precipitous times, as the hot mess we’re making of water cycles disrupts all of life and affects the well-being of the waterways right before our eyes. When the rivers aren’t right, nothing is right.
We have a Watershed Plan in our county in cooperation with the local Native American tribes. I am so happy about that. What I would like to see is Water cycle restoration projects.
Last year, when the fires were burning through L.A., my wife and I happened on a solution that one man, Zachary Weiss, used to keep his property from burning up in the fires. Zach has a website called Water Stories and it turns out his solution works on a small scale private property and scales up on a larger county or watershed basis as well.
I have been wondering if this water cycle restoration solution might be helpful to Watershed Planning?
This solution says that Climate Change isn’t just a carbon issue. It is also a water cycle issue. This is a less than 3 minute video on the problem.
https://youtu.be/TvHco_GL4Mo?si=_7TzG-L8m72mTw5J
This is a less than 2 minute video overviewing the solution and its positive impacts.
https://youtu.be/WxKIQs-t-o0?si=Bp4oRkQydFX90hjw
One person who observed and implemented this water cycle restoration over a number of decades is Sepp Holzer. He lives in Austria. His story is pretty amazing, and I find his view on nature and the earth inspiring. Sepp speaks High German I think, so this video has some English subtitles. It lasts less than 6 minutes.
https://youtu.be/yrpA0eFhscM?si=2UOp5xb_5yvJSKxG
Sepp worked with the unique identity of the land which is how he was successful with land no one else wanted.
He learned what worked in that specific bioregion and took powerful action steps to shift the direction of the land and farm in positive ways.
He brought out the latent potential of the land with water.
Sepp's main points are living system alignment, presence, continuous learning, and renewal.
He discarded “power over” for “power with” and stewardship with nature. Essentially, he listened to nature and responded accordingly.
This next video is about a farm in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon where these water cycle restoration projects have been done over time. It works, and it’s good to see it happening here. This video is 6 minutes.
https://youtu.be/WPgC_ZUtLzk?si=DvuRLEJtJLRKDUno
These projects show that you can do small decentralized projects that are interconnected and they can help the rivers and raise the aquifer tables.
It doesn’t have to be about building large reservoirs.
Farmers and others can get into a relationship with the land where they take water in a balanced way and give it with reciprocity.
This solution potentially gives the watershed what it needs to evolve and adapt to stress.
Here is a link to more and longer films you can access on the Water Stories website. This work is so encouraging. It seems like there are some educational opportunities and/or partnerships possible here as well.
https://www.waterstories.com/stories?category=videos
Water Stories offers educational opportunities so you can do your own Water Cycle Restoration projects.
FYI: I am not a contractor or a salesperson, and I have no financial or any other ties with the folks at Water Stories.
You can access Water Stories video library with your email. They have more in depth videos.
Also, the link below is to a website where Water Cycle Restoration has been going on in India since 1975. I think there is a Water Stories film about it. Their before and after photos under “Water Conservation”’is really something that has to be seen. Also, they have done a good job capturing metrics on their substantial progress. They talk about self reliant communities in harmony with nature.
https://tarunbharatsangh.in/?mc_cid=5b1063f587&mc_eid=29170f2e25
Thank you, Ben, for offering me and other readers so many interesting sources. I look forward to digging in when I have time. I'm glad to hear of so much good work being done with a water and watershed consciousness.
“Border walls cut through habitats like swords through flesh”. If I could “think like a watershed”, I would choose Memphremagog Watershed ,
at the very tip of northern VT. It would indeed be interesting to know how it feels, how it reacts to having VT’s largest landfill operation, for many years, dump leachate into its tributaries. Casella Waste Management , I believe they are also the captain of the ship in Maine, more the pirate of the ship. Though they pick up compost, they are not at all kind to the environment, as their bottom line is greed and profit ( sounds familiar). Their numbers in acreage ,the tons of buried waste, massive expansion, the amount of leachate processed, the lack of detailed studies over the years, and their proximity to the magnificent multi glacial
lakes, Memphremagog Watershed, 687 square miles, one quarter of it in VT, the rest lies in Quebec . In the summer, we bring our garbage to this landfill just south of Newport,VT. We pass many of these small tributaries , gorgeous wetlands, forests, wilderness, but as the looming mountain that is Casella becomes ever closer, it is impossible to think that all the land surrounding is not absorbing toxins into it’s tributaries and every inch of wetland. Supposedly there are stricter guidelines put in place over the last few years, but there has already been outflow of leachate into this once pristine watershed for years before. If watersheds could talk, this one would have a much darker story to tell. Its voice, rising from the depths of the wet earth that cradles it from below, would be hoarse, choked from sludge and liquid waste ever seeping through its massive body. Whenever I drive by, I think of Tolkien,The Lord of the Rings; Mount Doom in Mordor, the deep caverns where evil lurks in the fiery fissures below. Thank you as always ,Jason , eloquently written. Thanks for the book recommendation, I have Mountains of the Mind.
Thank you, Lor, for responding with such feeling about your watershed. So many - most, really - around the world torqued by pollutants and trash. Casella is the beast responsible for spreading so much PFAS-contaminated mulch around the state, contaminating wells (like my parents') and so much more. (The state and feds played a role too, of course.)
The good news is that watershed can heal if we let them, and esp. if we help them.
Anything by Macfarlane is worth your time. Check out Underlands too.
Jason nails the case,
rivers’ life, crucial as veins.
Watershed moment?
“Thinking like a watershed, it turns out, provides a low-altitude overview effect.” I love this—and in many ways, could replace “thinking like a watershed” with “adopting animism” with the same effect. When I tap into the interconnected life force in everything, how even these words I write now are carried on pollen and shared breath, it’s nearly impossible to not feel awe.
That's beautifully said, Kimberly. Thank you.
You also inspired me to explore more about my area’s watershed—living on a ridge, I knew our water didn’t come from the Tualatin or Willamette Valley watersheds. But is it only from the sky up here? Even if that sky water from millennia ago is now underground in deep aquifers? Do watersheds ever “run uphill” or are we truly only receiving water from snowmelt and sky? I’m fascinated and must dig deeper.
Good questions. I'd guess that the ridge has its own rain-dependent hydrology, but who knows. Enjoy the digging...
Great essay, Jason. Watershed management is not just an ecological problem. Many of our social-political boundaries are bounded and bordered by water because it was easier to stay on one side of it. Thus we have multiple states and countries dumping uncontrollably into the same waterways and pointing fingers at each other. Our political entities should be defined by watershed boundaries so they can be managed as a single unit. Unfortunately, their limits/divides are more difficult to define. My recent post demonstrates how conflicting jurisdiction contributed to the devastation of oysters and watermen: https://ecologistatlarge.substack.com/p/25-14-the-incredible-edible-oyster .
Thank you, Brad. You raise such a good point about how our artificial boundaries make life difficult for real life. I love the idea of redefining political boundaries by watershed. That would be sensible management. And thanks for the link. I hope it brings more of my readers your way.
Beautiful essay. Thank you so much. And thank you for the references and links. This is the first essay of yours I have had the pleasure of reading and I hope I don’t miss any of them. 💖
Thank you, Jacquelyn. Welcome to the Field Guide. Feel free to dig around the archives. I'm happy to point you toward particular pieces if you have specific interests.
Thanks for the shout out. Great minds think alike...and I guess we do, too! And, of course, I enjoyed your thoughts on watersheds. Loved these lines. "When the rivers aren’t right, nothing is right. And then, as we tear down dams or clean up rivers, we work to initiate a social tipping point for our communities to reconnect to the land they occupy."
Thank you, David. It's a nice coincidence. I'm really looking forward to Macfarlane's book as a follow-up too.
You have convinced me to order McFarlane’s latest book. I have loved his last books — very thoughtful and deep discoveries of our world… What’s left of it.
Thanks, Paula. You can't go wrong with any of Macfarlane's writing. I just hope he's read widely enough that folks not in our choir hear him and heed him.
Jason is right on. Is a River Alive? is a critically important book about our connections to water and the waters of the world.