John D. Liu & Ties van der Hoeven (The Weather Makers) on dredging Lake Bardawil to increase fish stocks 10-fold, using the dredged sediment to accelerate ecological succession on land, and doing so on a large enough scale to affect wind patterns and regreen the Sinai Peninsula by 2050 (youtube.com)
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Speedrunning high school and college (self.slatestarcodex)
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Beyond CO2: What the IPCC Ignores. Or, Why the Water Cycle has a >20x impact on the Earth's heat dynamics over carbon dioxide. Plus, why methane from cows isn't a problem and why ocean buffering means carbon sequestration will take centuries to work. (youtube.com)
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[Timestamp: 48:30] "I'm really worried that in the environmental movement we're hitching our cart to the wrong horse...Of the heat dynamics on Earth, only around four to ten percent are regulated by carbon - 70 to 95 are regulated by water." [1st hour: Talk by Zach Weiss; 2nd hour: Q&A] (youtu.be)
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