[Terrapreta] Carbon Sink Saturated

[Duane Pendergast]

Dear Terra Preta List,

 

I recently received the following notice of a new book from the global
warming establishment. Access to a sample chapter is provided.

 

Sample Chapter: Saturation of the Carbon Sink

http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/who_is_who/peps_personal/Post%202006/Chap
ter%206-%20Josep%20G.%20Canadell.pdf 

 

This chapter is of particular interest to Terra Preta enthusiasts as it
concludes right up front that;

 

"In this paper we demonstrate that the underlying ecology of terrestrial
biospheric CO2 sinks suggests that, despite having the potential for
increased C sink owing to atmospheric and climate change over the next
decades, most of the biological sinks will eventually level-off and
subsequently declined to zero (hereafter referred as "sink saturation")
whereby no further C will be removed from the atmosphere."

 

A quick check reveals no mention of charcoal, char, "black carbon", or Terra
Preta. It does reveal the mind set of those involved in international
programs on global warming and the Kyoto Protocol.

 

Duane Pendergast

 

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Dear Colleague,

 

I am pleased to inform you that the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
(GCTE), a project of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP),
has just published the last synthesis book to mark the end of its existence
(see below table of content and sample chapter). The book provides a number
of major synthesis papers and the exploration of new topics which are being
quickly incorporated in new global change research agendas.

 

Kind regards,

 

Pep Canadell

 

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Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World

J. Canadell, D. Pataki, L. Pitelka [2007] Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Heidelberg, p. 336

 

 

1 Global Ecology, Networks, and Research Synthesis 

 

Part A - Carbon and Water Cycles in the 21st Century

 

2 CO2 Fertilization: When, Where, How Much? 

3 Ecosystem Responses to Warming and Interacting Global Change Factors . . .
. .

4 Insights from Stable Isotopes on the Role of Terrestrial Ecosystems in the
Global Carbon Cycle 

5 Effects of Urban Land-Use Change on Biogeochemical Cycles 

6 Saturation of the Terrestrial Carbon Sink 

 

Part B - Changing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning 

 

7 Functional Diversity - at the Crossroads between Ecosystem Functioning and
Environmental Filters 

8 Linking Plant Invasions to Global Environmental Change 

9 Plant Biodiversity and Responses to Elevated Carbon Dioxide

10 Predicting the Ecosystem Consequences of Biodiversity Loss: the Biomerge
Framework 

 

Part C - Landscapes under Changing Disturbance Regimes

 

11 Plant Species Migration as a Key Uncertainty in Predicting Future Impacts
of Climate Change on Ecosystems: Progress and Challenges

12 Understanding Global Fire Dynamics by Classifying and Comparing Spatial
Models of Vegetation and Fire 

13 Plant Functional Types: Are We Getting Any Closer to the Holy Grail? 

14 Spatial Nonlinearities: Cascading Effects in the Earth System 

15 Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling: Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystem
Responses to Large-Scale Environmental Change 

 

Part D - Managing Ecosystem Services

 

16 Wheat Production Systems and Global Climate Change 

17 Pests Under Global Change - Meeting Your Future Landlords?

18 Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential in Agricultural Soils 

19 Carbon and Water Tradeoffs in Conversions to Forests and Shrublands 

20 Natural and Human Dimensions of Land Degradation in Drylands: Causes and
Consequences 

 

Part E - Regions under Stress 

 

21 Southeast Asian Fire Regimes and Land Development Policy 

22 Global Change Impacts on Agroecosystems of Eastern China

23 Terrestrial Ecosystems in Monsoon Asia: Scaling up from Shoot Module to
Watershed

24 Responses of High Latitude Ecosystems to Global Change: Potential
Consequences for the Climate System

 

Part F - Future Directions: the Global Land Project

25 The Future Research Challenge: the Global Land Project 

 

 

Sample Chapter: Saturation of the Carbon Sink

http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/who_is_who/peps_personal/Post%202006/Chap
ter%206-%20Josep%20G.%20Canadell.pdf

 

 

 

 

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