[geo] Re: Soft geoengineering could mitigate change

2014-10-30 Thread Michael Hayes
Parminder et al, Thank you for bringing up the mangrove/salt marsh/peatland issue. As we know, the past 50-100 years have seen vast coastal areas simply devastated due to many human factors. One of the most far reaching factor, which is little known to the general public, is related to shrimp

[geo] Re: Soft geoengineering could mitigate change

2014-10-29 Thread Parminder Singh
http://newcaledoniaplants.com/plant-catalog/mangrove-plants/ In addition to return crops and other plants back on soil there is also the need to return mangroves and other plants on peatlands, salt marshes etc. Their ability to take up CO2 as much as 4 times in tidal conditions compared to

[geo] Re: Soft geoengineering could mitigate change

2014-10-29 Thread nathan currier
Hi, Michael and GeoE - Thanks. Michael, you write about wanting to “promote offshore cultivation above all other forms of CDR and CO2 utilization/sequestration.” I’ve seen the Rodale stuff before, and wondered about their rosy numbers. Note that in the quote here Rodale are describing using 2x