Climate Change: The Water Paradigm
Channel: Jimi Sol
Date: 2020-09-08

In this video, we explore why maintaining a healthy water cycle may be much more important for the health of the climate than people realize. In case you are wondering, I'm not suggesting that the greenhouse effect due to CO2 or methane is insignificant. But I do think that the importance of the water cycle has been grossly under-emphasized, and should occupy a more central position in environmental discourse.

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Music: 'Comedy Quirky Documentary Pizzicato', from audiojungle.net. Used with a valid license.

Sources:
Water accounts of 60% of the greenhouse effect:
J.T. Kiehl and Kevin E. Trenberth, Earth's Annual Global Mean Energy Budget, 1997, page 203. http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/387H/PAPERS/kiehl.pdf

Deforestation disrupts the hydrological cycle:
M Kravčíket al., Water for the recovery of the climate–A new water paradigm, 2007, page 115. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bashkim_Lushaj3/publication/278676431_conference_proceedings_PRAGUE/data/5582db9c08ae1b14a0a28c4d/conference-proceedings-PRAGUE.pdf#page=127

On water-retention landscapes:
DM Revitt, JB Ellis, L Lund, Assessing the impact of swales on receiving water quality, 2018. https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Water_retention_landscape_Mini_catchment_approach/9593252