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Peter Donovan
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Peter Donovan
16 years ago
If we quit adding carbon to the atmosphere, it won't stop global warming anytime soon. That's why people are hoping that there are ways to get the extra carbon out of the atmosphere, and that we can put these billions of tons of it somewhere safe.
Posted by
Peter Donovan
16 years ago
Australia is currently the world leader in the recognition of the soil carbon opportunity, and the development of carbon markets that include soil carbon.
Posted by
Peter Donovan
16 years ago
In the United States, the current carbon market at the Chicago Climate Exchange buys offsets or "pollution credits" as some have called them. The amount of carbon sequestration purchased is directly related to emissions of carbon into the atmosphere by industries, for example. As the trading price of carbon offsets increases, presumably emissions will go down, but then so will the purchase of offsets.
Posted by
Peter Donovan
16 years, 1 month ago
Will reducing carbon dioxide emissions slow down global warming? Hardly, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "Complete elimination of CO2 emissions is estimated to lead to a slow decrease in atmospheric CO2 of about 40 ppm over the 21st century" (IPCC Fourth Assessment FAQ, section 10.3).
Posted by
Peter Donovan
16 years, 3 months ago
Four Slovakians and a Czech, some connected with the People and Water NGO in Slovakia, have written a short, powerful book on the water cycle. Water for the Recovery of the Climate---A New Water Paradigm is available in English from http://waterparadigm.org as a 15 MB, 94-page pdf (under “Downloads“).