Great blog, would like to emphasize once more that the changes in temperature globally have been in large part caused by deforestation in the tropics which have a far more detrimental effect than those at higher latitudes because of their higher capacity to cool to offset the far more intense amount of energy coming in at the equator. We have done the calculations in this paper: https://medcraveonline.com/IJBSBE/IJBSBE-09-00237.pdf, based on which we wrote the book Cooling the Climate. https://ethicspress.com/products/cooling-the-climate (happy to send a PDF to anyone interested) as the fastest way to stabilize weather and climate and avert the tipping points which are closing in.
The function of ecosystems is to balance weather, temperature, climate. Cooling is a stronger function of ecosystems closest to the equator. Deserts are in principle not a natural phenomenon and their existence points at a disequilibrium that nature has not overcome yet.
At night, while in the daytime it heats up the atmosphere much faster. A well functioning intact tropical rainforest rains out at the end of the afternoon after which the skies open up to let radiation out as well.
On deforestation, there has been a suggestion that the Little Ice Age was at least partially caused by the depopulation of Latin America after the measles epidemic introduced by los conquistadores. The steep population decline led to spontaneous reforestation thereby reducing atmospheric CO2. I doubt it's true but it's a great theory.
Now too, since microplastics have been detected in clouds, it's suggested this could be a factor in climate change too.
Joni Mitchell was right, we really don't know clouds at all.
Great blog, would like to emphasize once more that the changes in temperature globally have been in large part caused by deforestation in the tropics which have a far more detrimental effect than those at higher latitudes because of their higher capacity to cool to offset the far more intense amount of energy coming in at the equator. We have done the calculations in this paper: https://medcraveonline.com/IJBSBE/IJBSBE-09-00237.pdf, based on which we wrote the book Cooling the Climate. https://ethicspress.com/products/cooling-the-climate (happy to send a PDF to anyone interested) as the fastest way to stabilize weather and climate and avert the tipping points which are closing in.
Wild guess. The Sahara desert reflects more energy to space now than when it was forested.
Not a guess. it is true.
The function of ecosystems is to balance weather, temperature, climate. Cooling is a stronger function of ecosystems closest to the equator. Deserts are in principle not a natural phenomenon and their existence points at a disequilibrium that nature has not overcome yet.
At night, while in the daytime it heats up the atmosphere much faster. A well functioning intact tropical rainforest rains out at the end of the afternoon after which the skies open up to let radiation out as well.
Excellent blog. On low level clouds, the current suggestion is that the more than expected recent warming is due to reduced low level clouds.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05122024/reflective-low-clouds-decline-may-contribute-to-record-heat/
On deforestation, there has been a suggestion that the Little Ice Age was at least partially caused by the depopulation of Latin America after the measles epidemic introduced by los conquistadores. The steep population decline led to spontaneous reforestation thereby reducing atmospheric CO2. I doubt it's true but it's a great theory.
Now too, since microplastics have been detected in clouds, it's suggested this could be a factor in climate change too.
Joni Mitchell was right, we really don't know clouds at all.
No net effect.