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Asked 22 September 2024
  • Larbi Tebessi University, Tebessa, Algeria

How does climate change affect weather patterns and the environment in different parts of the world?

How does climate change affect weather patterns and the environment in different parts of the world?

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Carl Alexander Frisk
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Your question needs to be more specific, as the topic is fairly large and complicated. You might want to check the latest IPCC library for comprehensive reports, updated evidence and latest models. See link below: https://www.ipcc.ch/library/
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ALGERIA in particular is already experiencing Global Warming effects, which if not controlled with cloud seeding and revegetation of your desert lands back to grasslands and wildflower fields, could be devastating to your population.
Right now, there is a lot of moisture created by Global warming, which has caused floods in Algeria a month ago, and twice in Libya this year.
The tipping point for this return to the pre-Roman rainfall amounts, when Algeria and Libya were the rain-fed grain fields for the empire, started in 1985, and has increased each year since then. See https://www.ecoseeds.com/cool2.html
We have been having four years worth of discussions about this topic at https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_we_can_reach_the_food_security_in_country_90_is_desert
To manage the moisture:
1.) Cloud seeding to direct it to areas needing rainfall.
2.) Revegetation of the barren deserts with native grasses and wildflowers, to maintain the annual increase in rainfall, which could go from 5 cm a year to one meter or more.
3.) The government provide free flood insurance to all home and business owners.
4.) Homes and infrastructure in low lying areas which could become flooded in the future, the government pays for moving to higher ground.
5.) Like the Saudis have done with their "Saudi Green Initiative", and set aside hundreds of millions of hectares as "Ecological Restoration Preserves" where grazing and farming is prohibited, in order to keep the rainfall falling on the rain-fed farm fields. There needs to be a 10:1 ratio between Preserve hectares and rain-fed farm fields, to be sustainable.
6.) The Saudis adopted my proposal in August 2010 to set aside 500 million hectares as Ecological Restoration Preserves that you can see at https://www.ecoseeds.com/cool.html with the idea that if each country was going to withstand Global Warming, it needed to strengthen and restore as much as its natural ecosystems as possible, so we do not end up being at the mercy of the Climate Change effects.
7.) Example when tomorrow Friday at 8 am, the big batch of moisture, which could be turned into rain clouds with cloud seeding, to help the rain fed farm fields of your country. This moisture is arriving several times a week in the early morning, and you can see how far south your rain-fed agriculture could be expended if 2-3 times a week, a cloud seeding program could be started like the UAE is doing. Check the YouTube videos for details.

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  • Abbas KashaniAbbas Kashani
Why have changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation increased during the 20th century? Can climate change be predicted in the future?
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Man causes the major imbalances on the planet. Shouldn't we understand humans/ourselves first & focus on self-transforming ourselves for the better?
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  • Raveendra Nath YasarapuRaveendra Nath Yasarapu
In a way, we have caused our own problems. The solutions also lie within us. The notion that we can 'invent' technology to 'solve' our problems is escapism. The change should come from 'inside' rather than 'outside'. HUMAN SELF-TRANSFORMATION is the key, not inventing more and more expensive & deadly technology that ravage people and the planet.
Isn't the obvious solution and the elephant-in-the-room 'BETTER HUMAN BEINGS'? Shouldn't the focus be on better human beings rather than better technology? Why is it that everyone wants to develop better technology rather than focus on better humanity? Because no one has the answers and no one wants to change themselves? In environmental degradation, is it not obvious that nature can heal itself, if only left alone, and it is we humans who need regulation? Many natural parks managers do just that; seal off the area from human interference to let nature heal and recover. It is classified as 'Strict Nature Reserve"by IUCN. Complacency and inaction are not advocated here, as many have misunderstood, but the shifting of focus from technology to the human being. As technology is no match for human greed, isn't introspection & restraining ourselves more relevant than developing more technology, which caused the mess in the first place, by making it easy for a few to consume more? Since technology is only a short term quick fix which fails after a short time, isn't the real problem our addiction to material consumption & our lack of understanding about human nature? Isn't developing more technology sustaining the addiction instead of correcting it, leading to more complex problems later on, needing more complex technological quick fixes like higher drug dosages, more ground troops & equipment, (along with their debilitating side effects) in the future? Isn't this the vicious addiction circle we are trapped in? As researchers, do we merely buy more time with technology OR go to the very root of the problem, the human being?
A lot of hue and cry is made about climate change and the environment in general. Public and private money is poured into research to study its effects on the environment, sustainability etc. Should we study nature or ourselves?
" Our studies must begin with our selves and not with the heavens. "-Ouspensky
Human activities have been found to have a direct correlation to climate change and its impact on the environment(I=P x A x T, the Ehrlich and Holdren equation), in spite of what some complacent sections say to protect their own self interests.
We hardly know about Human nature. We can scarcely predict human behavior. We need to find out why we think like we do and why we do what we do and why, in spite of all knowledge and wisdom, consume more than what we need, in the form of addictions to consumption and imbalance not only ourselves but also the family, society and environment around us..
Humanity is directly responsible for all the unnatural imbalances occurring on the planet. Yet we refuse to take responsibility and instead focus on climate change, or fool the public exchequer with a 'breakthrough in renewable energy just around the corner'. We scarcely know what drives human beings. If we had known, all the imbalances around us would have had solutions by now, given the amount of money plowed into finding such solutions. Are we blindly groping in the dark of climate change because we don't know the answers to our own nature?
Is it not high time we focus on what makes us human, correct our consumptive behavior and leave nature to take care of climate change? Why focus effort on 'externals' when the problem is 'internal'- 'me'?
Aren't we addicts denying our addiction and blaming everything else but ourselves?
" We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world." - Gautama, The Buddha 
IMHO, We don't need to save the World. It is enough if we save ourselves from ourselves. The need of the hour is not vainglorious technological interventions, but HUMAN TRANSFORMATION through self-restraint and self-correction!
The Mind is the Final Frontier.

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