Good review Pod Cast of Diatom impacts. Unfortunately their needed to be an additional focus on how nutrient and Iron availabilities to diatoms and to our oceanshas been AND still is being greatly decreased by the complete damming and human regulation on the worlds' largest rivers. Nutrient detention behind dams is a huge problem. However there's some studies that suggest there is some amount of variability. Key elements that affect nutrient/iron detention
*How large are the reservoirs(former rivers) behind dams
*What time of year is the majority of water impounded with little to no flow
*Is there any portion of the original river that flows free and is undammed.
Keep in mind historically the Earths' natural and primary delivery systems for providing nutrients, elements, Iron, and silica ARE MOVING WATERS from active rivers, not from reservoirs! Most of our planets major rivers/waterways flowing into our oceans are now fragmented with dams and diversions. And the largest are now Reservoired completely
There's a particular season(Mainly springtime)everywhere on our planet that provides the largest quantities food/ nutrients. Spring floods usually have the largest amount of water flow and the largest amount of food is available to Marine life.
This is now just the opposite for the largest rivers in the Northern Hemispheres 'subpolar regions. There is no Spring ice melt -Freshet on all this Hemisphere's largest (former) rivers now totally impounded into reservoirs year-round . Only in wintertime, when it is least needed, waters are discharged thru turbines. The discharge rates are 10-20x greater than
when it was normal year-round flow. There's a lot more, maybe we can share with a podcast
or webinar from our Research group. NECAPA hydrodamtruth.org. Lets tallks
The Earth ia fully functional systems being, has complimentary systems similar to humans, and others in the animal kingdom,
Really interesting, thanks for sharing this and making your series even more accessible.
I have a technical question, a side note question and a systemic one.
In order of personal importance:
1) In terms of system change, it seems to me that this solution is articulated a lot in terms of technical, large scale, government run operations. To me one of the systemic effect of regenerative interventions is that they offer an opportunity for local communities (and eventually the human species) to reconnect with nature and take back a role of stewardship towards the ecosystems they live in and depend upon. By removing the main critical interventions from communities and ordinary people I fear we won't heal the fundamental divide and disconnection that brought us where we are now. This of course doesn't mean we shouldn't do things that are meant to be done at larger scale, but I was wondering if and how there could be a place for the kind of interventions envisioned in the series to be done at community levels.
2) The technical question is about how the micro organisms can induce rain. When I first heard about micro organisms from plants inducing rain was through a webinar with Cindy Morris, where she explained that the bacteria and other micro organism lower the temperature at which water vapor becomes ice, inducing precipitation by doing so, basically putting together ice nuclei and rain. Here I hear a difference between the two.
3) The side note is that I think I recognized the voices of NotebookLM in the interview. If so I wonder what you think about making it transparent when AI is used to produce content. I am not really into this debate, and don't have definite ideas, but I still find there can be potential concerns about it and was wondering how they can be addressed transparently.
Good review Pod Cast of Diatom impacts. Unfortunately their needed to be an additional focus on how nutrient and Iron availabilities to diatoms and to our oceanshas been AND still is being greatly decreased by the complete damming and human regulation on the worlds' largest rivers. Nutrient detention behind dams is a huge problem. However there's some studies that suggest there is some amount of variability. Key elements that affect nutrient/iron detention
*How large are the reservoirs(former rivers) behind dams
*What time of year is the majority of water impounded with little to no flow
*Is there any portion of the original river that flows free and is undammed.
Keep in mind historically the Earths' natural and primary delivery systems for providing nutrients, elements, Iron, and silica ARE MOVING WATERS from active rivers, not from reservoirs! Most of our planets major rivers/waterways flowing into our oceans are now fragmented with dams and diversions. And the largest are now Reservoired completely
There's a particular season(Mainly springtime)everywhere on our planet that provides the largest quantities food/ nutrients. Spring floods usually have the largest amount of water flow and the largest amount of food is available to Marine life.
This is now just the opposite for the largest rivers in the Northern Hemispheres 'subpolar regions. There is no Spring ice melt -Freshet on all this Hemisphere's largest (former) rivers now totally impounded into reservoirs year-round . Only in wintertime, when it is least needed, waters are discharged thru turbines. The discharge rates are 10-20x greater than
when it was normal year-round flow. There's a lot more, maybe we can share with a podcast
or webinar from our Research group. NECAPA hydrodamtruth.org. Lets tallks
The Earth ia fully functional systems being, has complimentary systems similar to humans, and others in the animal kingdom,
Cliff, I totally agree with you. Give me a few days to finish off Ramadan. Let's connect around 4th April or onwards.
Really interesting, thanks for sharing this and making your series even more accessible.
I have a technical question, a side note question and a systemic one.
In order of personal importance:
1) In terms of system change, it seems to me that this solution is articulated a lot in terms of technical, large scale, government run operations. To me one of the systemic effect of regenerative interventions is that they offer an opportunity for local communities (and eventually the human species) to reconnect with nature and take back a role of stewardship towards the ecosystems they live in and depend upon. By removing the main critical interventions from communities and ordinary people I fear we won't heal the fundamental divide and disconnection that brought us where we are now. This of course doesn't mean we shouldn't do things that are meant to be done at larger scale, but I was wondering if and how there could be a place for the kind of interventions envisioned in the series to be done at community levels.
2) The technical question is about how the micro organisms can induce rain. When I first heard about micro organisms from plants inducing rain was through a webinar with Cindy Morris, where she explained that the bacteria and other micro organism lower the temperature at which water vapor becomes ice, inducing precipitation by doing so, basically putting together ice nuclei and rain. Here I hear a difference between the two.
3) The side note is that I think I recognized the voices of NotebookLM in the interview. If so I wonder what you think about making it transparent when AI is used to produce content. I am not really into this debate, and don't have definite ideas, but I still find there can be potential concerns about it and was wondering how they can be addressed transparently.