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Healing the water cycle is key to stopping climate change. Healing the water cycle helps heal the carbon cycle. #climatechange

Beavers brought rain to North America and Europe climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/beavers-brou… "...As beavers multiplied, the amount of wetland evaporation increased, which added to the ocean moisture blowing inland to create more rain. That extra rain led to more trees. More trees meant more transpiration, which led to even more rain...."

@PaulAnd52959567 @REGENETARIANISM @johnkempf The point of article is that there was already rain in North America but that beavers then increased the rain

@REGENETARIANISM @johnkempf The rain still had to fall in the first place. Beaver dams slowed the runoff and allowed more rainwater to be used in place, instead of running off. But I wouldn’t say that they “brought the rain” They utilized the rain.

Groundwater levels may be affecting the amount of rain we have climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/the-missing-… #groundwater #drought #hydrogeology

2/ "Today we have not lost interest in these systems but we tend to look upon them as circulation systems. This change in attitude has led to a deeper understanding of their dynamics. Perhaps the next generation will be talking about the dynamics of water systems.”

1/ Edward Lorenz, founder of chaos theory, wrote about climate science “The previous generation was greatly concerned with the dynamics of pressure systems & talked about highs & lows."

@eyeslasho Desalination on that scale increases global warming

Why the rains come to the Amazon three months earlier than scientists had thought they would open.substack.com/pub/climatewat…

Forests help create the rainy season climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/what-causes-… #savethetrees

In the wet season there is often too much water, in the dry season too little water. Nature can slow the water so that more of the wet season water is still there in dry season.

Halting our drought-fire-flood path to desertification : Zach Weiss interview open.substack.com/pub/climatewat…

Millán Millán : he taught us about the small water cycle climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/millan-milla… #smallwatercycle #watercycle #precipitation #permaculture

Fungi produce around fifty megatons of spores each year––the equivalent to the weight of 500,000 blue whales. Spores are carried upward by a wind current generated by mushrooms as water evaporates from their gills. The spores float up into the clouds, where they influence global weather patterns by triggering the formation of rain droplets and ice crystals that form snow, hail, and sleet. This multitude of spores not only propagates the next generation of fungi, it seeds the precipitation that creates the conditions for fungi to flourish. 📸: Richard W J Koh

@visakanv Caveman to another : we are putting together a team to go hunting in the dark every night, want to join our startup? Lots of risk, but the reward is high.

trying to workshop a joke, help me out here 1. involves cavemen and/or hunter-gatherers, basically pre-agriculture 2. involves the phrase “get a job”

Reforestation has shown to increase rainfall amounts, even at the small scale of just a couple of thousand acres. Hear more about it in this new interview talking about the regenerative water movement with @alphalo #details" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/indias-regen…

'#BioticPump'? w/ Anastasia Makarieva "How to restore the #WaterCycle, and how that helps with hydrating..#earth and #soil, replenishing #groundwater, restore #rains in #drought areas, lessen #flooding, and slow down #ClimateChange" | @alphalo climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/biotic-pump-… #forests

How forests attract rain : the biotic pump #details" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/biotic-pump-… #bioticpump #rainforests #watercycle #permaculture

@FinitePhysicist How would define where the boundary is between physics and chemistry?

Physics AMA! Ask me any question about physics, and I'll either answer it for you, or provide a correct-sounding but misleading answer, each with 50% probably!

@Kaju_Nut Moshe Feldenkrais

Who are some people who switched from a research career in physics to a different field and made seminal contributions to their new field? I could think of Francis Crick, Max Delbrück, Douglas Hofstadter. Who else?

@PaleoLaura thank you!

@alphalo Packrat middens containing plant material indicate moister conditions in the deserts of Southern California around 9,000 years ago

@PaleoLaura Do you know if southwestern California currently desert places like Joshua Tree, Imperial valley if there were more verdant and lush places with more water anytime in recent history (10,000 years ago to now)?