And the one thing I forgot to add was that when this system increases
the rate of carbon decomposition, the lack of carbon in the soils will
reduce plant growth (lack of fungal symbionts sp.?) and world wide food
production will fall off the cliff. Looks like the Armageddonists will
get their show a little sooner.
D.
On 12/06/2012 8:57 AM, D & N wrote:
So, other than the build-up of salts in the Canadian and American
grain belts from over use of fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation
(accumulation of salts in the lowered water table) thus speeding
toward desertification, we have the added contribution of faster
degradation of the soils by bacterial digestion. It was always like
pushing a boulder up hill to get the farmers in S. Ontario to add more
green manure to their fields for healthier soils and better returns
and (even more so in the Mid west - I heard). So, I guess this can
now be used by the oil and chemical industries to tell the farmers not
to do that. It will only speed up global climate change. O, wait.
Aren't they some of the biggest deniers of global warming???
D.
On 12/06/2012 6:38 AM, Ed Weick wrote:
When I last did some work in the high Arctic, there was a lot of
concern about the release of methane as tbe permafrost thawed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-the-earth-warms-forest-floors-add-greenhouse-gases-to-the-air/2012/06/11/gJQATcIOVV_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines_Tue
Ed
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