When the surface is altered for man’s use for farmland or urban development, the insulation is removed exposing the surface directly to the solar energy and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration levels. This makes them appear as if they are connected, but they aren't, they are both a by-product of altering the natural habitat to conform to the expanding human population. Both are a direct feedback response expected when massive amounts of land is converted for human use. In doing so, it accelerates the heating effect on the surface during the summer, trapping the heat quicker in the springtime, and then maintains this energy longer and resists the onset of winter. Over time, as the winters conduction cycle shortens, and the summers charging event strengthens, climate changes are observed on the surface.
It also channels the water away from these areas, reducing the amount of ground water and infiltration that amplifies this heating effect. Over time, heat is maintained longer and drives the heat upwards toward the surface. Over time, this leads to a delayed onset of the fall and declining winter seasons. If winter seasons decline, then there is a buildup of the heat below that will carry forward into the following spring when the conduction cycles shortens prematurely. If the surface remains unchanged over a period of time, this heat rises in both duration and amount and can be registered on the surface through temperature changes. Over many years, the constant temperature will slowly rise toward the surface and the sub-layers will increase in heat and pressure. This creates an earlier thaw due to the lack of time needed to dissipate the amount of heat stored, resulting in earlier springs. Over many years, this heat builds and continuously rises, creating its own feedback and is known as global warming.
Because the surface is sealed and there is no wind to carry the heat away in the same way it does on the surface, subterranean water does. This would need to be added into any equation in determining heat values. We have already determined that there is a great deal of water loss from the subterranean environment, and the loss of coolant always creates additional heat. An automobile’s cooling system is designed to dissipate the amount of heat the engine creates. If you begin to run low on coolant, like your car’s radiator, eventually, no matter how cold it is outside, you will overheat.
It also channels the water away from these areas, reducing the amount of ground water and infiltration that amplifies this heating effect. Over time, heat is maintained longer and drives the heat upwards toward the surface. Over time, this leads to a delayed onset of the fall and declining winter seasons. If winter seasons decline, then there is a buildup of the heat below that will carry forward into the following spring when the conduction cycles shortens prematurely. If the surface remains unchanged over a period of time, this heat rises in both duration and amount and can be registered on the surface through temperature changes. Over many years, the constant temperature will slowly rise toward the surface and the sub-layers will increase in heat and pressure. This creates an earlier thaw due to the lack of time needed to dissipate the amount of heat stored, resulting in earlier springs. Over many years, this heat builds and continuously rises, creating its own feedback and is known as global warming.
Because the surface is sealed and there is no wind to carry the heat away in the same way it does on the surface, subterranean water does. This would need to be added into any equation in determining heat values. We have already determined that there is a great deal of water loss from the subterranean environment, and the loss of coolant always creates additional heat. An automobile’s cooling system is designed to dissipate the amount of heat the engine creates. If you begin to run low on coolant, like your car’s radiator, eventually, no matter how cold it is outside, you will overheat.
As the heat builds below during the summer, it naturally rises toward the surface. As it comes near the surface, it will come in contact with water. The heat will transfer and the water will move it rapidly toward the surface. Early homes like mine were equipped with gravity feed boilers. This means that the water is heated in the basement and the heat flows up naturally through one set of pipes and into the radiators. As it flows through the radiators, the heat is released and the water is cooled. The cold water is heavier than the hot water, so as the hot water moves up one set of pipes, the cool water moves back to the boiler through a return set of pipes, and circulation naturally occurs. We use water because of its efficiency in transferring heat, and the planet uses this too.
All vegetation is equipped with pores that are called the stomata. These pores open and close in response to many conditions such as the season, the amount of sunlight, temperatures, water levels, humidity, wind, and other factors. During the day, they allow photosynthesis to occur, and at night, they open in a process called "Transpiration." This is a period of time when science indicates that this process allows for the tree or vegetation to cool down from the daytime’s sun. With water flowing through the tree, remaining the same temperature or even cooler than its surroundings, it is clear that the cooling is for something other than the tree.
Each plant is like an individual vane in a large radiator that takes this heat from several feet beneath the surface and allows it to be released at night through water vapor. Just as heat flows up in my gravity feed boiler, so does the heat from the bedrock and subterranean soil transfer its heat through the water where it will rapidly rise to the surface. The surface is warmer than this water, so it remains trapped below the surface until nightfall when it can be released, and the warmest water will be at the highest level and will be exhausted first.
This process is a bio-engineered marvel. During the summer months, the vegetation alters its stomata for the process of photosynthesis, minimizing the amount water vapor being released into the atmosphere during the day. At night, the pores of the vegetation open and release the heat through water vapor. When fall comes, the leaves turn color and fall off, shutting down this process and sealing the heat in under the thatch in preparation for winter. As winter comes, the energy is slowly released as long as the surface temperatures remain less than the subterranean level. When the season changes to spring, the trees will bud and begin the process over again. If a cold snap occurs for any reason, as we have seen here in Minnesota in the past, the buds and newly formed leaves fall off until the weather becomes warm enough. They will then bud again allowing for venting through transpiration.
Areas inland where the low temperatures decline to 50 degrees at night or less on an overall average, we find the vegetation losing their leaves. Southern locations lose their leaves later and bloom sooner than areas in the north, and as the temperatures rise in the spring, venting begins. A maple tree in northern Minnesota will lose its leaves earlier and bud later than a maple tree in Missouri. Most of South Dakota changes to autumn after most of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri, and these are all further south, indicating a temperature variable and light levels are both factors. In 2011 and 2012, we had a very warm spring in Minnesota, and even during this warmth, the trees still continued to remain dormant, indicating that the type of vegetation, amount of sunlight, and temperature all have a direct effect upon the vegetation’s seasonal alterations.
All nature provides ground cover, even in the deserts with sand. When man converts this land for farming or urban development, this cover is lost and is exposed to the solar radiance, resulting in additional heat gain that drives up the temperatures. Natural cover is a vital mechanism that provides a cool and stable sublayer and aids in maintaining moisture, specifically through dry hot spells. Without this, increased evaporation will rise season after season and the potential for droughts rise year by year.
Both surface and subterranean water aids in cooling the planet by moving much of this heat being boxed in below out of the soil through underground water sources and surface water. Inland lakes offer vast cooling that allows a continual release of built-up heat from below. As surface water levels decline and warm, they become less able to release this built-up energy from below. Areas vacant of surface water resources become more reliant on underground water and heat transfer through the surface vegetation. Man’s response to impending drought is to put in place additional wells for irrigation, and in doing this, we also accelerate the heating process by decreasing the subterranean water levels.
When converting forest and prairies into agricultural land, we need to also consider the reduction in carbon dioxide sequestration that will cause a rise in overall carbon dioxide levels. Croplands and grazing land capture far less carbon dioxide than the prairies, forests, or jungles. Utilizing wet crops (such as rice) offers far more cooling and is capable of capturing far greater amounts of carbon dioxide than dry farming due to the life sustained within the water and also increases the cooling factor that the water provides. Such farming techniques have provided wide spread population growth over the years in Asia, but it doesn’t have the same effects that nature provides. These areas show significant alterations as a result of their land usage over time.
All vegetation is equipped with pores that are called the stomata. These pores open and close in response to many conditions such as the season, the amount of sunlight, temperatures, water levels, humidity, wind, and other factors. During the day, they allow photosynthesis to occur, and at night, they open in a process called "Transpiration." This is a period of time when science indicates that this process allows for the tree or vegetation to cool down from the daytime’s sun. With water flowing through the tree, remaining the same temperature or even cooler than its surroundings, it is clear that the cooling is for something other than the tree.
Each plant is like an individual vane in a large radiator that takes this heat from several feet beneath the surface and allows it to be released at night through water vapor. Just as heat flows up in my gravity feed boiler, so does the heat from the bedrock and subterranean soil transfer its heat through the water where it will rapidly rise to the surface. The surface is warmer than this water, so it remains trapped below the surface until nightfall when it can be released, and the warmest water will be at the highest level and will be exhausted first.
This process is a bio-engineered marvel. During the summer months, the vegetation alters its stomata for the process of photosynthesis, minimizing the amount water vapor being released into the atmosphere during the day. At night, the pores of the vegetation open and release the heat through water vapor. When fall comes, the leaves turn color and fall off, shutting down this process and sealing the heat in under the thatch in preparation for winter. As winter comes, the energy is slowly released as long as the surface temperatures remain less than the subterranean level. When the season changes to spring, the trees will bud and begin the process over again. If a cold snap occurs for any reason, as we have seen here in Minnesota in the past, the buds and newly formed leaves fall off until the weather becomes warm enough. They will then bud again allowing for venting through transpiration.
Areas inland where the low temperatures decline to 50 degrees at night or less on an overall average, we find the vegetation losing their leaves. Southern locations lose their leaves later and bloom sooner than areas in the north, and as the temperatures rise in the spring, venting begins. A maple tree in northern Minnesota will lose its leaves earlier and bud later than a maple tree in Missouri. Most of South Dakota changes to autumn after most of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri, and these are all further south, indicating a temperature variable and light levels are both factors. In 2011 and 2012, we had a very warm spring in Minnesota, and even during this warmth, the trees still continued to remain dormant, indicating that the type of vegetation, amount of sunlight, and temperature all have a direct effect upon the vegetation’s seasonal alterations.
All nature provides ground cover, even in the deserts with sand. When man converts this land for farming or urban development, this cover is lost and is exposed to the solar radiance, resulting in additional heat gain that drives up the temperatures. Natural cover is a vital mechanism that provides a cool and stable sublayer and aids in maintaining moisture, specifically through dry hot spells. Without this, increased evaporation will rise season after season and the potential for droughts rise year by year.
Both surface and subterranean water aids in cooling the planet by moving much of this heat being boxed in below out of the soil through underground water sources and surface water. Inland lakes offer vast cooling that allows a continual release of built-up heat from below. As surface water levels decline and warm, they become less able to release this built-up energy from below. Areas vacant of surface water resources become more reliant on underground water and heat transfer through the surface vegetation. Man’s response to impending drought is to put in place additional wells for irrigation, and in doing this, we also accelerate the heating process by decreasing the subterranean water levels.
When converting forest and prairies into agricultural land, we need to also consider the reduction in carbon dioxide sequestration that will cause a rise in overall carbon dioxide levels. Croplands and grazing land capture far less carbon dioxide than the prairies, forests, or jungles. Utilizing wet crops (such as rice) offers far more cooling and is capable of capturing far greater amounts of carbon dioxide than dry farming due to the life sustained within the water and also increases the cooling factor that the water provides. Such farming techniques have provided wide spread population growth over the years in Asia, but it doesn’t have the same effects that nature provides. These areas show significant alterations as a result of their land usage over time.