Hypothesis - Climate Change - Water and Water Flow

A hypothesis (from Greek ὑπόθεσις; plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for an observable phenomenon. The term derives from the Greek, ὑποτιθέναι - hypotithenai meaning "to put under" or "to suppose." For a hypothesis to be put forward as a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on previous observations that cannot be satisfactorily explained with the available scientific theories. Even though the words "hypothesis" and "theory" are often used synonymously in common and informal usage, a scientific hypothesis is not the same as a scientific theory – although the difference is sometimes more one of degree than of principle.

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I propose the following Hypothesis in relation to Climate Change:

That the issue of Climate Change relates to - WATER

The suggestion I make is that - the water cannot leave the planet. I attended an Edinburgh Lecture a couple of years ago at the Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh where two Russian Cosmonauts and one American Astronaut showed to the audience the world as seen from outer space and which has been monitored for many years now. The Cosmonauts and Astronauts can establish with certainty that water is disappearing from certain areas and can show images from outer space that lakes have shrunk to almost puddles.

I recently wrote an article about the Karen of Burma and focused on animism as located on wikipedia. This has made me think in a specific way : that there are peoples on this planet like the Karen, the Aborigines, the Navarro Indians, Buddhists, Aristotelian / Hobbes and also Japanese Shintoists who "know" that things are not as they should be and this is perceptible through the senses and specifically through these peoples and others society and cultures.

Now, I read an interesting article in yesterday's "The Herald" today about Kilimanjaro and its melting. I read an article recently, perhaps the Daily Mail, which showed an ice face apparently "weeping". The issue is that the ice glaciers are melting.

This made me think in terms of my own research and some of you will have discerned that the "opposites" are highlighted, and moreover, that in terms of Climate Change, the opposites would relate specifically to "hot" and "cold".

My hypothesis is therefore that WATER specifically is the crux.

If you go into a room, and it is not acceptable as a temperature, you turn the heater on. Gradually, the room becomes warm and usually too warm over time. Then, you either (a) turn the heat source off; (b) turn on a cold source; or (c) open the window to let the heat out - thereby regulating the temperature.

What is certain is that when you entered the room, the temperature was not acceptable to you (as a human being); you heated it to what was acceptable / comfortable and you re-adjusted it when it was too much / uncomfortable.

Imagine if the heater is switched on, but you cannot open the window, the temperature continues to go up - and the ice is melting.

The ice is melting ... is it because the ice is needed to cool down the heater, but in so doing it melts and as they say in the Gaelic proverbs: when the well is dry, you know the value of the well. Eventually, there will be nothing left to melt.

Melt - this is my hypothesis - the "melt" means solid becomes liquid - WATER. Is it the case that the natural world is telling us the issue is WATER.

Now back to The Karen, some research established that Burma is also known as Myanmar and I was aware of the Myanmar Dam but not that there were TWO DAMS. (Given the Karen are historically animistic, and Thailand is historically Buddhist - I find it is illogical for this area of the world would have two dams, and raise the question why? given their spiritual belief system would surely dictate otherwise: a dam is artificial, not natural). The impact on these peoples would, I perceive, be quite horrendous.

If something is dammed, then one side has water, the other has limited water - but the important feature of water is that it FLOWS.

If then in animism societies, something is say dammed upstream, then the volume level is going to increase - try turning up the volume on your stereo: is it that the world volume is turning up - the Aborigines claim to know the world is dying. If there is not enough water, then life is extinguished.

Water is located in the aquifer levels, if you dam, you affect the aquifer layer - ie underground water trapped in the porous of the rocks, and also underground waterways. If you dam you affect the flow of the upper river pathways but unseen the underground too.

I have behind the scenes asked for all cartology (maps) to be brought together on a global basis specifically relating to rivers and water (a computer programme could do this easily), plus any ordnance mapping year on year since ordnance mapping occurred which picks up aquifer and underground waterways.

This should then focus on WHAT has materially changed in the "natural" river pathways and water flow across the planet - it should therefore clearly indicate WHAT is being seen by the Astronauts/Cosmonauts from outer space in America and Russia, and presumably Europe, China and all other space programmes as well as Al Gore and the scientists who surround him via the ground - both affirm each other.

It should also clearly identify (a) stagnation; (b) dammed; (c) pollution.

What is needed for Copenhagen in December is a specific conference relevant to the animistic societies and cultures because they MUST know something which needs to be known by the rest of us.

Water and water flow would be the opposite to focus on : cooling ie "opening the window" when the room is too hot.

My hypothesis therefore is that the world does not exist in chaos but in order (opposites) and even with a chaos theory (the butterfly effect) that a dam or all dams could be the butterfly (a "cause" not identifiable from the impact consequence but two or more steps removed from it making it unseen and needing to be revealed by looking for a circumstance at an earlier point in time - the big clue being it is something "artificial" in a "natural" world sequence). A dam would be an "ARTIFICIAL" occurrence in the natural world and would have an artificial impact. In order to evaluate the theory: the issue would be to flood all dammed areas and measure in some way whether the earth can be cooled, and cooled in a NATURAL methodology, ie water flow, and what the impact is on clearly identified areas seen from outer space by astronauts and cosmonauts. There is a choice - one dam at a time, or altogether - it is after all only water - water cannot leave the planet: imagine your thirst if you were starved of water.

Whatever, the issue is with climate change it affects the NATURAL world, therefore it is most important to engage with those who fundamentally understand and know the natural world - animists.

I wonder what a group of Animists would think of this hypothesis and what they could tell me/you/us for thinking in this way.

(Adding a further thought - Ornithology (the study of birds) - birds migrate - their migratory pathways are pre-determined. When they do so they must reach their food source, ie lakes, rivers, streams. A sure indicator of a problem source of water, would be a particular decline in a bird species which migrates and its normal habitat is linked to water. For example, sparrows have been on the decline in the UK but we possibly do not know why. A global 'ornithology' conference would highlight natural world issues and could specifically assist identification of areas relating to the flow of water, especially where there is an aquifer or underground waterway issue).

I don't think it relates to the natural worlds ability to be hot, I think its the natural worlds current inability to cool down. The natural world has a habit of doing things right under our noses and sometimes you just have to observe as issues are revealed to you : an essay on The Karen forced my focus to animism (which I understood conceptually); which appeared relevant given the Myanmar Dam and a bit of googling research established two dams; which appeared unnatural to me, given someone saying to me: "the water cannot get off the planet", which seemed informative having attended the Edinburgh Lecture of visiting astronaut/cosmonauts, which seemed relevant to sneaking down the corridor years ago to do work in the Environment Department and landing some ordnance checking of contaminated land sites and their position to aquifers, which all came together when I saw recently articles on Norwegian Glacier's weeping and an article on crop failure in America and yesterday's article in the Herald about Kilimanjaro. Why are the ice glaciers MELTING - because it is too hot or because the water is needing to flow to areas where the water is missing or disappearing ... WATER CANNOT LEAVE THE PLANET - where is it going, or where has it gone, where has it not gone to naturally ...? Water is essential for life on earth.