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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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 8, 2008

The article is short note about the concept of burying charcoal in the ground. There is not much info presented on the costs or efficacy of the idea, nor schemes to do it at an individual level. Hansen is invoked correctly as advocating reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, but the article implies he endorses the biochar scheme, but does not state that, which seems a little slippery of the author.

The SciAm link provides a variant piece of information.

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