Comments on: Buying Time: Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Will Slow Climate Change http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/10/buying-time-cutting-non-co2-pollutants-will-slow-climate-change/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:34:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jubal Hill http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/10/buying-time-cutting-non-co2-pollutants-will-slow-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-19323 Jubal Hill Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:30:41 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=16093#comment-19323 Visit www.outbackbiochar.com for biochar information, biochar research and the latest biochar news. This wonderfully informative site has gardening tips with biochar, recent studies published all over the world and informative biochar articles. In addition you can purchase biochar for your home garden from Outback Biochar. Thank you in advance for your support and remember, if we all work together we can make real progress on climate change! Visit http://www.outbackbiochar.com for biochar information, biochar research and the latest biochar news. This wonderfully informative site has gardening tips with biochar, recent studies published all over the world and informative biochar articles. In addition you can purchase biochar for your home garden from Outback Biochar. Thank you in advance for your support and remember, if we all work together we can make real progress on climate change!

]]> By: Erich J. Knight http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/10/buying-time-cutting-non-co2-pollutants-will-slow-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-18472 Erich J. Knight Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:47:54 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=16093#comment-18472 Another significant aspect of bichar and aerosols are the low cost ($3) Biomass cook stoves that produce char but no respiratory disease. http://terrapretapot.org/ and village level systems http://biocharfund.org/ with the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF). The Biochar Fund recently won $300K for these systems citing these priorities; (1) Hunger amongst the world's poorest people, the subsistence farmers of Sub-Saharan Africa, (2) Deforestation resulting from a reliance on slash-and-burn farming, (3) Energy poverty and a lack of access to clean, renewable energy, and (4) Climate change. The Biochar Fund : Exceptional results from biochar experiment in Cameroon http://scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=14&idContribution=3011 http://www.carboncommentary.com/2009/10/01/761/comment-page-1#comment-2558 The broad smiles of 1500 subsistance farmers say it all ( that , and the size of the Biochar corn root balls ) http://biocharfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=75 Mark my words; Given the potential for Laurens Rademaker's programs to grow exponentialy, only a short time lies between This man's nomination for a Noble Prize. An honor to have Laurens as a commenter on the Biochar list , This authoritative PNAS article should cause the recent Royal Society Report to rethink their criticism of Biochar systems of sequestration; Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory actions to complement cuts in CO2 emissions http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/09/0902568106.full.pdf+html There are dozens soil researchers on the subject now at USDA-ARS. and many studies at The up coming ASA-CSSA-SSSA joint meeting; http://a-c-s.confex.com/crops/2009am/webprogram/Session5675.htm Senator Baucus is co-sponsoring a bill along with Senator Tester (D-MT) called WE CHAR. Water Efficiency via Carbon Harvesting and Restoration Act! It focuses on promoting biochar technology to address invasive species and forest biomass. It includes grants and loans for biochar market research and development, biochar characterization and environmental analyses. It directs USDI and USDA to provide loan guarantees for biochar technologies and on-the-ground production with an emphasis on biomass from public lands. And the USGS is to do biomas availability assessments. WashingtonWatch.com - S. 1713, The Water Efficiency via Carbon Harvesting and Restoration (WECHAR) Act of 2009 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_1713.html#commentform Congressional Research Service report (by analyst Kelsi Bracmort) is the best short summary I have seen so far - both technical and policy oriented. http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40186_20090203.pdf . United Nations Environment Programme, Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/ http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/PDF/Ch5_compendium2009.pdf Endorsements; Bill Clinton said Biochar; Mantria Industries inducted in Clinton Global Intuitive http://www.mantria.com/eg_presidential_video.shtml About time Al Gore got on the Biochar Bus, now if he will stick at it, waving out the windows; Al Gore praised in Brazil the indigenous practice of "terra preta" http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1.voanews.com%2Fspanish%2Fnews%2Flatin-america%2FAl-Gore-Brasil-terra-preta-indigenas-amazonicos-64318922.html&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0= Carbon to the Soil, the only ubiquitous and economic place to put it. Cheers, Erich Another significant aspect of bichar and aerosols are the low cost ($3) Biomass cook stoves that produce char but no respiratory disease. http://terrapretapot.org/ and village level systems http://biocharfund.org/ with the Congo Basin Forest
Fund (CBFF). The Biochar Fund recently won $300K for these systems citing these priorities;
(1) Hunger amongst the world’s poorest people, the subsistence farmers of Sub-Saharan Africa,
(2) Deforestation resulting from a reliance on slash-and-burn farming,
(3) Energy poverty and a lack of access to clean, renewable energy, and
(4) Climate change.

The Biochar Fund :
Exceptional results from biochar experiment in Cameroon
http://scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=14&idContribution=3011

http://www.carboncommentary.com/2009/10/01/761/comment-page-1#comment-2558

The broad smiles of 1500 subsistance farmers say it all ( that , and the size of the Biochar corn root balls )
http://biocharfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=75

Mark my words;
Given the potential for Laurens Rademaker’s programs to grow exponentialy, only a short time lies between This man’s nomination for a Noble Prize.
An honor to have Laurens as a commenter on the Biochar list ,

This authoritative PNAS article should cause the recent Royal Society Report to rethink their criticism of Biochar systems of sequestration;

Reducing abrupt climate change risk using
the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory
actions to complement cuts in CO2 emissions
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/09/0902568106.full.pdf+html

There are dozens soil researchers on the subject now at USDA-ARS.
and many studies at The up coming ASA-CSSA-SSSA joint meeting;
http://a-c-s.confex.com/crops/2009am/webprogram/Session5675.htm

Senator Baucus is co-sponsoring a bill along with Senator Tester (D-MT) called WE CHAR. Water Efficiency via Carbon Harvesting and Restoration Act! It focuses on promoting biochar technology to address invasive species and forest biomass. It includes grants and loans for biochar market research and development, biochar characterization and environmental analyses. It directs USDI and USDA to provide loan guarantees for biochar technologies and on-the-ground production with an emphasis on biomass from public lands. And the USGS is to do biomas availability assessments.
WashingtonWatch.com – S. 1713, The Water Efficiency via Carbon Harvesting and Restoration (WECHAR) Act of 2009

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_1713.html#commentform

Congressional Research Service report (by analyst Kelsi Bracmort) is the best short summary I have seen so far – both technical and policy oriented.
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40186_20090203.pdf .

United Nations Environment Programme, Climate Change Science Compendium 2009
http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/
http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/PDF/Ch5_compendium2009.pdf

Endorsements;
Bill Clinton said Biochar;
Mantria Industries inducted in Clinton Global Intuitive
http://www.mantria.com/eg_presidential_video.shtml

About time Al Gore got on the Biochar Bus, now if he will stick at it, waving out the windows;
Al Gore praised in Brazil the indigenous practice of “terra preta”
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1.voanews.com%2Fspanish%2Fnews%2Flatin-america%2FAl-Gore-Brasil-terra-preta-indigenas-amazonicos-64318922.html&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0=

Carbon to the Soil, the only ubiquitous and economic place to put it.
Cheers,
Erich

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