Ancient skills 'could reverse global warming'

The Independent by Geoffrey Lean | Dec. 7, 2008 (News Report)

Ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America in the most serious commercial attempt yet to reverse global warming.

Trials are to be started in Sussex and Belize early in the new year, backed with venture capital from Silicon Valley, on techniques to take carbon from the atmosphere and bury it in the soil, where it should act as a powerful fertiliser. Full Story »

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by Norman Rogers - Dec. 7, 2008

Unfortunately the information on www.biochar-international.org does not agree with the rosy picture in this article. One would have to collect all the agricultural waste from the whole world, process it and bury it and then only have a small effect, offsetting only a modest percentage of carbon emissions, not counting all the fuel burned to do the collection. There is nothing practical about this except maybe the Europeans can be conned into paying people to do this.

There is more misinformation about global warming than almost any subject. Hansen, far from being a respected scientist, is off the rails. He wants to put CEO's in jail along with anyone spreading misinformation about global warming.