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2014-02-13 Thread Brian Cartwright
To William, Ron and group, Permit me to add some points in favor of biochar to Ron's list. He mentions that soils are a larger sink for carbon than the atmosphere, and there is a need to increase soil carbon. Indeed about half the CO2 in the atmosphere came from soil sources, and the absence

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2014-02-12 Thread Ronal W. Larson
Dr. Calvin and ccs See few inserts below On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:34 PM, William Calvin wcal...@uw.edu wrote: I start from urgency: lots of climate change in a decade with something of a hiatus in near-surface air warming. Anything effective we do will have a lead time and then a drawdown

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2014-02-09 Thread Ronal W. Larson
Dr. Calvin: 1. I'd like to follow up on your statement below: Better to get nutrients by pumping up and then pumping down the new green stuff --before it can decompose-- into deep waters that take a thousand years to begin resurfacing and then are spread out over 10k years.

[geo] Olson gives Spoerl Lecture on geoengineering, climate change solutions | The Lawrentian

2014-02-08 Thread Andrew Lockley
http://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1002557 Olson gives Spoerl Lecture on geoengineering, climate change solutions POSTED ON FEBRUARY 7, 2014 BY DANNY DAVIS Last week, the environmental science department held a lecture by guest speaker Robert L. Olson from the Alternative Futures Institute. The

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2014-02-08 Thread emily
Lecture on geoengineering, climate change solutions | The Lawrentian Hi All Olson writes: Rather than try and take preventative measures, such as expanding green energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, climate geoengineering aims to directly reverse the effects of global warming. Why