What are the causes of our current environmental and ecological crises? Is the enforcement of international 'net zero' carbon strategy the best solution to the problems we face, or are there deeper issues that need to be addressed?
Rejecting the view of the earth as an isolated or 'closed' system - as in conventional computer modelling - Luigi Morelli argues that our planet is an 'open' system - a living entity that maintains a dynamic equilibrium within its own kingdoms and the wider solar system. Humans, however, still have a pivotal role to play.
Building on the pioneering work of Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, Viktor Schauberger and others, Morelli expands our view of the climate, from the oceans and atmosphere to the sun, and from the last 150 years to the history of our climate over millennia. In doing so, he exposes the weakness of the prevailing fixed narratives around our undoubtedly changing environment - in particular, the conventional hypothesis concerning carbon emissions. Such 'consensus science' is often at the mercy of established economic interests, who have largely co-opted academia and scientific institutions.
In a thoroughly researched and accessible study, The Living Climate explores the intricacy and wisdom of an untold variety of cycles in nature and the critical and overlooked role of water within the 'greenhouse gas' model. Challenging mechanistic representations of the global ecosystem, Morelli's holistic, scientific review offers potential solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
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'Morelli takes the reader on a hero's journey through the entrenched theories of climate change into the deeper, holistic causes of - and potential solutions to - this confounding, highly politicized reality.' - Robert Karp, social entrepreneur
'The author should be commended for compiling this timely and well-researched book. It will be of great value to all who are looking for a better understanding of troubling weather phenomena and a beacon of hope for those who have been disappointed with the inability of conventional climate science to explain them'. - Branko Furst, MD, author of The Heart and Circulation
'A very important contribution to the ecological crisis we humans currently face. Through the lens of Schauberger's work, the reader is called to take a very wide, encompassing view of nature. Morelli convincingly demonstrates that in the current climate change narrative we desperately need such an outlook and the kind of approach that Schauberger developed.' - Elisabeth Chomko, filmmaker
Introduction
The view from the Earth
The view from the Solar System
Some General Questions
A Synopsis
Part I: Climate Change or Planetary Depletion?
The View from the Earth
Chapter One: Two Worldviews
Radiative Forcing and Greenhouse Gases
Climate Models
Matter and Energy: A Permeable Boundary
Does Gravity Operate Alone?
Subtle Influences: Form, Materials, Sound, Temperature
Chapter 2: The Water Wizard
Viktor Schauberger's Biography and Turning Points
The Phenomenological Approach
Schauberger on Bio-Energies
Chapter 3: A Holistic Understanding of Water and Rivers
The Vortex: A Unique Phenomenon
Thinking in Polarities
A Fuller Understanding of Water
Water and Temperature: The Anomaly Layer
and Temperature Gradients
Planetary Motion
River Health
Technological versus Holistic Water Regulation
Water Mains
Generation of Energy from Seawater
Chapter 4: Rivers, Forests, Farms and the Cycle of Water
Movements of Water and Nutrients in the Soil
The Water Table and the Formation of Springs
The Growth of the Forest
Agriculture and the Depletion of Levitational Forces
Devises for the Production of Levitational Forces
Two Hydrological Cycles
Another Kind of Hydro-Electric Energy
Chapter 5: Ethercities and Generation of Energy
Ethers and Ethericities
The Activity of Elemental Beings
Implosion and Energy Production
The Moral Question
Chapter 6: Economies of Scarcity or of Abundance?
Red and Blue Economies
In Need of a Cultural Revolution
Part II: Computer Models or Planetary Harmonics?
The View from the Solar System
Chapter 7: From the Oceans to the Cosmos:
The Modern Ecology Perspective
The View from the Oceans
Arctic Warming: An Exception or a Recurring
Phenomenon?
Trends in Cloud-Cover and Albedo
The View from the Sun: Solar Cycles
The View from the Cosmos
An Alternative View to Computer Models
Chapter 8: Reviewing the Science
Cooling and Warming in Relation to Longer Cycles
The Limitations of Model Thinking
IPCC Procedural and Epistemological Biases
Chapter 9: A Holistic view of Climate: Forecasting
the Future?
Some Basics about Harmonics
Golden Ratio and Fractals
Sun and Planetary Motions
Big Hands, Big Fingers
Solar Cycles
Solar Eruptions and Solar Wind
Harmonics of Solar System Cycles and Solar Activity
Climatic Effects
Other Connections between Solar Eruptions
and Weather Phenomena
Astronomy and Climate Computations
Continuation of Landscheidt's Work in the Present
The Approaching New Grand Solar Minimum
Limitations of Galileo's and Newton's Astronomy
Conclusions and New Beginnings
A New Understanding of Sun and Solar System
A New Understanding of Gaia
Recovering Balance, Countering Depletion
Appendix 1: Turning Waste and CO2 into Resources:
The Blue Economy
Bibliography
LUIGI MORELLI graduated with a Masters in Environmental Sciences in 1981. He has a passion for social and cultural change, which led him to live and work in intentional communities serving people with special needs (Camphill International, L'Arche International), or cohousing communities. In his American historical writings he blends the historical and scientific with the imaginative approach of myths, legends and biographies. His other writings concern cultural renewal from a historical perspective and its present impacts on natural science, psychology, social science and literature. His most recent publication is Searching for the Spirit of the West (Clairview, 2023). A full list of his books can be found at: www.millenniumculmination.net
