CAN THE WORLD EXPERIENCE ANOTHER BIBLICAL FLOOD? MAY AND SHOULD NOT
CAN THE WORLD EXPERIENCE ANOTHER BIBLICAL FLOOD? MAY AND SHOULD NOT
Archaeologists around the world are investigating the historical context of the Biblical flood. According to Bible genealogical records, the flood occurred around 2204 BC. The flood started with 40 days of continuous rain, and then it took another 335 days for the water to recede and the crew of Noah’s ark to land. According to the Bible, God decided to destroy humanity at that time because it was corrupt.
Whether it was one way or another, a fundamental question must be asked. How is it possible that at that time it rained continuously for 40 days, which caused the flood of the world. Many archaeologists and scientists around the world are investigating this connection. I would like to offer my perspective, which may clarify the context of the dramatic events 4226 years ago.
This knowledge literally stands on the water, because by examining the trend changes of precipitation in little Slovakia on the data 1901-1970, it is evident that there are months in which there is a decrease in precipitation and there are months in which there is an increase in precipitation.
We published this in the book Water for the 3rd Millennium in 2000, and at that time we were laughed at by all the experts. Now unizono scientists say that there is a spatial and temporal change in the distribution of precipitation.
It is not only necessary to talk about it, but also to understand why it happens. If we understand this, then we will understand that the same stupid things that the current civilization is doing, was also done by the civilization before the Biblical flood. Then we will not argue that God has punished us, that we are corrupt (even though we are), but that we are responsible for these changes.
What should the cause be looked for? Well, let’s look at the diagrams of the distribution of monthly precipitation with an approximation to 1901 and to 1970. There is a decrease in precipitation in spring and autumn and an increase in precipitation during the summer and winter monsoons. Why is it like that? Because it rains less often than in the past, because we feel that when it rains more than we need, we send the rainwater into the sea.
On average, we send about 250 million to the sea from Slovakia per year. m3 of that rainwater, which in the past remained in the land and then evaporated and returned to the ecosystems after the formation of clouds in the form of rain.
This regular cycle of water evaporation, the birth of new life through vegetation and the formation of clouds and precipitation lasts an average of 8 days and is called the small water cycle, in which it recycles about 24 billion in the annual balance. m3 of water.
Since we have done incomprehensible miracles across the country to drain rainwater from forests, through agricultural land to inner villages of towns and villages, an average of 1% of the aforementioned volume of water (250 million m3) is lost every year and flows into the sea, so this water will not return to the country in Slovakia.
After 50 years of such tyranny of the country, “only” 15 billion have decreased from small water cycles in the territory of Slovakia. m3 of rainwater. Still in small water cycles, what’s left, but we’re working hard to make sure there’s nothing left.
Since all the inhabitants of the planet Earth are working hard on this, according to general estimates, approx. 760 billion are channeled annually from the continents. m3 of rainwater, thus we stored more than 45 billion in the oceans. m3 of fresh water. We have contributed to the rise of ocean levels by more than 12 cm in 60 years.
We are actually such “bortács” who are trying hard to eliminate life on the continents and accumulate fresh water from the continents in the oceans. Some countries have already completed the breakdown of small water cycles. In those countries, it doesn’t rain at all for at least half a year, and when it does, it’s a complete disaster.
Just as there were disasters in California, Greece, Pakistan, Italy, or Korea, new and new disasters will increase every year, and when they combine there will be a global flood. That is, a NEW BIBLICAL FLOOD, which will be survived by the most resistant unspoiled communities, who will start doing the same stupid thing that we do with our population growth: CHANNELING RAINWATER INTO THE SEA.
So this is my perception and message to the Withered Egypt, where the world powers are struggling with how to decarbonize the world and find the culprit who is to blame for our overheating of the world. We friends are all guilty and we need to change it in our heads that rainwater is not waste, but God’s gift, which should not be channeled into the sea, but left where it falls or in a suitable place.
If we don’t understand this in the next decade and start a fundamental change with rainwater management, we will end up friends where the previous civilization ended, which caused it to rain for 40 days…
SOLSTICE. HOW DID WE BREAK THE AIR CONDITIONING ON THIS DAY?
Today is the summer solstice. North of the Equator, we’ll have the longest sunlight in the northern hemisphere.
Reason says that with the closest proximity to the Sun, it should be logical that the Solstice day should be the warmest day of the year. Right?
The year’s warmest day usually does not occur until the second half of July. Why? Because there always have been more water in nature up to this point, until recently. Spring showers and melting snow always fed our springs and saturated our soil. By the time the solar rays heat up the water in our landscapes, some time will pass. This is true when there is enough water in the country. Every farmer’s almanac would tell you that the hottest days come in late July or dog days in August.
It appears we broke the solstice prognoses. The hottest days of the year are no longer late summer. The hottest days of the year are getting close to the solstice.
We’ve dried up the country and keep finding excuses – it is easier to hide behind the phrase of climate change. People are drying out their landscapes systematically, which is why our land has been overheating faster since the Sun is directly over the Equator. It is pretty realistic to expect that even more extreme temperatures and related extreme temperatures will come with the flight.
Since the middle of the last century, people no longer value the rain as a gift; and soil moisture a blue gold. We design for drainage in our urban and agricultural settings. Ecosystems cannot cope with excessive soil sealing and drying out. We do not allow rainfall to remain where it falls. What comes down must go up. Except it does not.
How often do we see the morning dew? When did we see smoky mountain fog rising? We broke the small water cycles. Satellites show us gigantic heat domes over the south of Europe or the MidWest. Landsat and Copernicus satellites show that May was the fifth warmest on record globally. This spring, the extreme historical temperatures in Spain, Italy, and France show a blazing red warning.
Solstice is not what it used to be. It seems we broke our air conditioning system. Common sense tells us that water cools down our environment. But, the water is not there in our landscapes any longer.
Looking at the pictures, you can see that the first tree is doing well. This tree receives enough water and drinks as much water as it needs to cool down. Such trees can evaporate up to 500 liters of water per day.
The middle picture shows a barely-surviving tree before the collapse, with barely 10 liters for feeding. While the tree was younger, it sucked all the water from the soil under the asphalt. The sealed areas around the tree have not allowed water supplies from rain to be replenished for decades.
When the tree no longer managed to pull the water with its roots, a man came and cut it out (that’s the third picture).
When there are 10,000 such barely-surviving trees in a city, which can barely manage to transpire perhaps 30 liters a day, more heat is released into the atmosphere daily. There are no longer life-saving trees. Instead, we estimate that about 3 thousand MWh of heat contributes to the overheating of the city. If those trees had enough water, then their transpiration would ensure that trees would absorb this heat into higher, cooler layers of the atmosphere, and it would be 3-5 degrees cooler in the city.
As seen in the first picture, each such tree replaces ten air conditioning units which would cool our apartments. So hundreds of thousands of air conditioning units would not be necessary, and we would save on energy charges and not contribute to the energy or climate crisis.
We are in the era of wireless technologies. Still, we are so foolish that we do not understand the common sense or old peasant principles of how the landscape’s thermoregulation works and what water’s evaporation means for cooling our landscapes. We know it’s colder under the tree, but we don’t know it’s because the water evaporates from the tree.
We understand that if the car radiator leaks, it overheats and collapses, but we do not understand that if we make holes in a small water cycle, they will be emptied, and the landscape will overheat. We break the small water cycles if we do not retain the rainwater where it falls. Straightened and deepened waterways increase the water’s turbidity and fasten the desertification process in our watersheds.
If you want to discuss and know more about it, come on Saturday 2 July 2022 to the NATURE festival in Jahodná near Košice, where I will talk more about it as part of the festival. Information about the festival can be found here: https://festivalnature.sk. I’m looking forward to meeting you.
Author: Michal Kravčík
Edit and translation: Z.M.
Wildfires and drouhgt in South Korea
South Korea at the invitation of the Korea Green Foundation
This blog will be writen as report on the visit to South Korea at the invitation of the Korea Green Foundation on 2-9. April 2021
Authors of the report: Michal Kravčík, Mooyoung Han
The aim of the visit was to monitor, present and communicate the causes of the forest fires in South Korea, which are increasing from year to year. Discussions were at the level of communities, politicians, experts and managers for forest protection.
Former Thai Ambassador Im Jae-hong (from left), Tovenet Chairman Hwang Tae-in, former Vietnamese Ambassador Lim Hong-jae, Nowon Urban Agricultural Network CEO Lee Eun-soo, Slovakia ‘People and Water’ Chairman Michal Kravcik, and Han Mu-young, who participated in the water harvesting event ahead of Arbor Day last week Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University, former deputy commander of the Army Special Warfare Command Lee Jeong-ha, former chairman of Gadin Moon Kwon, former Croatian ambassador Byun Dae-ho, and former Iraqi military officer Kang Man-seop.
Source: https://www.hankyung.com/society/article/202204116759i
No big conclusions can be drawn from the week-long stay, but by visiting individual areas of South Korea, it was possible to understand the causes of more frequent forest fires in Korea. It is evident that the risks of fires are related to the drying up of not only forests but also the entire Korean Peninsula.
Despite the fact that an average of 1400 mm falls on the Korean Peninsula per year, up to 50% of precipitation falls in the summer months (July-August). After extreme rainfall in the summer of 2020, when the monsoon lasted 49 days, scientists agreed that the cause was global warming [1].
After the long summer monsoon, droughts came, which were repeated in the winter of 2021-22. The number of fires in the winter of 2022 increased by more than 100% compared to 2021. There are many dry streams in the country and with very low water levels on the rivers. These indicate that there is low amounts of the water in the country.
If we look deeper into the landscape structure and the solutions of rainwater management in the country, then it is obvious that rainwater is still perceived as something unpleasant, which needs to be disposed of as soon as possible. Therefore, the rainwater was systematically drained even where it should be left in the country. The photographs document how the rainwater was illogically sewered in specific examples. This causes long-term drying of the area
Here it is necessary to realize that if 1000 m3 is drained from a small piece of drained land every year, then 10 thousand m3 of rainwater is drained for 10 years and 30 thousand m3 is drained from the given area in 30 years. This water is absent in small water cycles, thermoregulation is weakened and the result is the release of heat into the troposphere, which overheats the site and the surrounding area. With each 1 m3 of rainwater drained, 700 KWh of heat is released into the atmosphere.
drying out trees
anti land slide in forests draining water in droughts
draining drought
investing in drought and floods
draining water from dry forests
engineering drought
contributing to floods in urban area
collateral contribution to drought and flood
engineering drought by drainage
According to expert estimates, it drains about 500 mil. m3. This needs to be clarified by analysis. In the 50 years of implementation of the old water paradigm in the territory of South Korea, more than 25 billion have been lost. m3 of rainwater that remained in the country replenished soil and groundwater reserves, evaporated through vegetation and was part of small water cycles that created conditions of more frequent rains and humidification of the landscape. This reduced the risk of fires.
If this trend does not stop, there is a risk that the country of South Korea will continue to dry up, and the time will come soon after what South Korea has built over many decades in forest protection will have the potential to cause large-scale fires. South Korea can prevent this by systematically launching programs that strengthen the water retention of forest ecosystems and thus prevent fire risks.
In this context, it should be borne in mind that increasing rainwater retention in the country strengthens ecosystem services. The water in the soil contributes to the growth of vegetation and thus also of woody plants, because there is permanently enough water for vegetation. At the same time, excess water from the soil gravitationally seeps into the underground reserves. The water that contributes to the growth of vegetation evaporates. The evaporated water transports latent heat to the higher colder layers of the atmosphere. As water vapor condenses in the higher colder layers of the atmosphere, clouds form, and at the dew point, latent heat becomes sensitive and heats these colder layers. This means having more water in the country means enhanced thermoregulation of the country and reduced risks of fires.
It should also be recalled that sufficient water in the country also contributes to the daily condensation of water vapor in the microcycles that form horizontal rainfall: Annual horizontal rainfall can give the country 50-80 mm of moisture, which also protects areas from drought and fire. This can be achieved by keeping the part of that water that flows out of the country without useful during heavy rains, ecosystems being restrained in the country, the restoration processes of the country are started and at the same time the restoration of small water cycles is strengthened, horizontal rainfall is strengthened. This will cause it to rain more during those times of the year when it rains very little, and it will rain less when it rains too much. For this to happen, a systemic program of increasing the country’s retention capacity is needed, provided that rain is not a waste, but an irreplaceable source of life, biodiversity, stability, community security.
The nature of the monthly precipitation totals suggests that it is possible to create the right conditions for the moisture that was in South Korea’s forest to return a few decades ago within 5 years. This will ensure the protection of forests against fires, improve the climate, strengthen biodiversity, increase the protection of areas against floods and droughts and also improve the hydropower potential of the river throughout the country. However, there is a need to create frameworks to help politicians make good decisions.
We recommend:
- Establish the Korean National Coordinating Board for the Ecosystem Flood Program
- Development of a Republic of Korea Flood Action Plan to Reduce Fire Risks by 2030 – should be specified across South Korea’s river basins and reflected in concrete community-level solutions
- Create legislative frameworks that will motivate all forest owners and managers, but also agricultural and urbanized lands to leave rainwater where it falls.
- Create partnerships with private investors that will allow carbon credit to be invested in rebuilding damaged land by strengthening photosynthesis. The potential is to increase the sequestration of 3-4 tons of CO2 / ha by annually enhanced photosynthesis
- To increase the level of education and capacity building of technological solutions for ecosystem flooding of the country, we recommend creating three model areas, in which already in 2022 they will experimentally test technological solutions, capacity will be built for mass ecosystem flooding of the whole country.
- Consider partnership cooperation with Slovakia also because South Korea has several significant investments in Slovakia (eg KIA), which can show a way out how to cooperate internationally in integrated nature protection in the ongoing climate change.
In Košice and Seoul, April 11, 2022
Michal Kravčík
Mooyoung Han
Wildfires in Greece
Wildfires in Greece
Chairman of people and water as part of slovak republic expert group
We offered help
When we saw massive wildfires we offered help. We contacted Slovak government to establish expert group which will be sharing experiences from massive wildfires we had decades ago.
In monoculture forests like these which burned around Athens it is necessary to help nature to revitalise. It is dangerous to let the land revitalise on its own. Heavy rainfalls can cause massive landslides and jeopardise people and properties even more.
Machinery can be also used
When terrain, budget and protection level of the area allows it machinery can be used. Burned and dead trees were cut and lied on contour lines effectively. Bulldozer then excavated soil and sealed spaces with that soil. This way we were effective and very fast. Special forestry engineering techniques were used to to stabilise banks of deep erosion holes and design plan for water retention cascades on the slope.
Bulldozer working on water retention measures on countour lines
Our Mission & Approach
We proposed plan for burned area in Attica region. We choose area of 23+ ha as prototype area. First it was necessary to scan the area and analyse how much water can be retained here. On area of 1 ha we showed various techniques from experiences in Slovakia. Water retention measures for more than 300 cubic meters were done by 5 people in 2,5 days.
Our Ambassador of Slovakia to Greece Iveta Hricová, helped to organised the presentation where Michal Kravčík shared experiences from Slovakia.
Intermediate Results
During the visit of state secretary Martin Kováč in Greece area was visited by Slovak delegation. We can see that measurements are working and heavy rainfalls are held in our measurements are retaining water and letting it to absorb slowly.
