The
Carbon Cycle
Simply
put, the world breathes in and out carbon. The planets oceans and
soils heat and cool,
taking in carbon and releasing carbon... and of course also produces
the oxygen that we breathe.
This cycle
is being told to speed up.
Over the last 150 years we
have Industrialized digging up coal and oil burning and releasing
heat and
energy. This man-made activity accelerates carbon emissions
releasing more CO2 than the natural carbon cycle would have normally
produced... well one might think it's a big world, big enough and it's
all released into the atmosphere.
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The soil
is being told to go into reverse.
We have
reversed the role of soil
and
it has become a "carbon
emitter".
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Greenhouse
Effect
Extra CO2
magnifies the greenhouse
effect trapping the heat warming the planet. Just like deserts and bare
ground
reflect the heat - whilst green lush land absorbs the heat "and cools" -
photosynthesis
is a cooling
process.
Farming the old
fashioned way.
At the same
time we burning more
and more fossil fuels we are practising
farming based upon 100 year old
technology. We are depleting the soil of its' natual nutrients and we
replace with a chemical
fertilizer -
*chemical
production is based upon oil - when
the oil stops
so does the food.
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Best management practices
Modern farming and environmentally
sustainable practices
promote healthy soil activity and practise continuous no-till, which
helps the soil retain and keep stored
its' CO2 - which is a healthy sustainable cycle.
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We can cool the planet with soil
carbon sequestration by practicing Yearlong Green Farming.
Healthy soil can become the
carbon sink we need to manage global planetary change. |
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Yearlong Green Farming
Increased Photosynthetic Capacity Reverses Global Warming
Christine Jones, PhD
Founder, Carbon For Life Inc.
www.amazingcarbon.com
YGF
is any process, technique or practice that turns bare soil
into soil covered with green plants for most of the year. Yearlong
Green Farming increases the quality, quantity and perenniality of green
groundcover in broadacre cropping, horticultural, silva-pastoral and
grazing enterprises. YGF practices include (but are not limited to)
pasture cropping, over-cropping, cover-cropping, microbial stimulants,
green manuring, alley farming and planned grazing. Livestock are an
important component, as grasslands and grazers have co-evolved for over
20 million years and are mutually beneficial if managed appropriately.
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Ohio State University Extension
Fact Sheet
Soil Carbon Sequestration-Fundamentals
Alan Sundermeier,
Randall Reeder, and Rattan Lal.
Adding
organic matter to farmland is good for soil quality and crop yields,
both short-term and long-term. Continuous no-till is an efficient way
of doing this. Cover crops and manure also help raise carbon levels. If
you want to sequester carbon to reduce global warming (and possibly
receive a small annual payment) think of it as a bonus for being a good
farmer. Soil carbon sequestration is a natural, cost-effective, and
environmentally-friendly process. Once sequestered, carbon remains in
the soil as long as restorative land use, continuous no-till, and other
Best Management Practices are followed. It is a win-win option. While
mitigating climate change by off-setting fossil fuel emissions, it also
improves quality of soil and water resources, enhances agronomic
productivity, and buys us time to identify and implement viable
alternatives to fossil fuel.
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Austrlalia Nut Farm
Australia Nuts
Aaron Edmonds
Australia
Nuts is a company founded by Aaron Edmonds in 2005 with the purpose of
promoting and developing the production and marketing of sandalwood
nuts in Australia. Aaron is a young farmer in the Wheatbelt of Western
Australia who in 2003 was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship to
study ways to reduce the dependency of agriculture on fossil fuels.
What he discovered led him to believe that the Australian sandalwood
nut had a vital part to play in the future of Australian farming.
The world's first dedicated sandalwood nut plantation was planted on
the Aaron Edmonds' Wheatbelt farm in 2000. It is ironic that this
Australian native tree is likely to once again dominate the farming
areas from which it has been cleared for nearly 100 years. In order to
understand exactly how important a role the sandalwood tree and its
delicious nut will play in the future of food in Australia, it is
important to understand the current dependency conventional farming
systems have on fossil fuels and how perilously linked the global food
supply currently is to crude oil and natural gas supplies.
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SUSTAINABLE
TECHNOLOGY
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SEADOV
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND DESALINATION ON VESSELL
Large
Scale Renewable Energy
Desalination
[more] |
| SUSTAINABLE
UNDERWATER TURBINE [SUT] |
SOIL
SCIENCE
Dr Rattan Lal, Professor of Soil
Science
at Ohio State University and Director, Carbon Management and
Sequestration Center, USA, has calculated that 476 Gt of
carbon has
been emitted from farmland soils due to inappropriate farming and
grazing practices, compared with 270
Gt emitted from over 150 years of
burning of fossil fuels.
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| Setting a strategy
to reverse climate change |
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| UN: we have the
money and know-how to stop global warming |
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| National biodiversity and climate
change
action plan 2004 - 2007 |
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Changes to
Australia's
climate
are already occurring over and above natural variability (e.g.
long-term spatial and temporal changes in rainfall and temperature
patterns) and these changes are expected to have an impact on
Australia's biological diversity.
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/publications/nbccap/
| United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change |
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The
United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (http://www.unfccc.int) provides the basis
for global action "to protect the climate system for present and future
generations".
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/international/unfccc.html
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Department
of
Mechanical Engineering, University of Sierra Leone |
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Strategies
that mitigate climate
change resulting from increasing concentration of greenhouse gas
emissions while promoting sustainable and equitable development are
needed to be taken rapidly and immediately by countries world-wide.
http://www.uneprisoe.org/CopenhagenConf/davidson.htm
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CAN DO RIGHT NOW |
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| Another Climate
Scare Goes into Reverse |
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I can barely keep up
with the
current raft of
peer reviewed papers that drive yet more nails into the coffin of
climate alarmism. Following on from the fading huricane scare that I
recently blogged about here, a new paper published in Nature on 17th
January, further destroys the myth that ocean currents will slow due to
global warming:
http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/002729.html
| Farmers urged to
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