Human Climatic Connections

I have developed 22 pages of colorful text and graphics called 'The Climate Change Puzzle' to motivate more discussion and hopefully lead to more action in a localized context. The document places an emphasis on the relatively small volumes of air and water, in relation to the volume of the earth. Human generated heat, transformed hydrologic cycles, extracting water from underground, atmospheric dimming, all contribute to climate change. In addition, the effects of changing land, water, vegetation and atmosphere, compound localized anomalies, into larger and larger events until regions or portions of continents experience extreme climatic changes.

This independent, unscientific hypothesis is based on logical conclusions, and only attempts to introduce a very small perspective of a highly complex situation. If society were aware that reducing the demand on over extracted groundwater reserves or, if one tree was planted each year for every person on the planet; in ten years seventy billion trees would make a difference to the earth's climate. Climate is basically a response to millions of small influences some natural some human caused, introducing a term like 'Human Induced Climate Adaptation' (HICA) suggests that the simple act of planting a tree could place a positive piece in a large and complicated puzzle.

'The Climate Change Puzzle' can be seen below.