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
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
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.
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
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