[Terrapreta] Soil test and CEC

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Jim,

Wow!?  Human are causing air pollution?  Is that what you are saying?

Green House Gases are the bulk of that air pollution you speak of and they have a greater impact on temperatures in the troposphere than any other mechanism, including current and historical solar activity and cosmic rays (which are completely unaffected by solar activity).  The resulting climatic changes, including global warming, increased incidence and severity of droughts, 3 category 5 hurricanes in one annual seasons, are a direct result of human activities which introduce ~6 billion tons of new carbon into the atmosphere each year.   This is not an issue which politicians seem willing to address (unfortunately).

There are 1500+ scientists, global climatologists, having done thousands of research projects and written thousands of peer reviewed articles where they are in COMPLETE CONSENSUS that global warming is caused primarily by humans.  There has never ANY CRITICISM of even one peer reviewed article, written by any scientists in the past ten years, which stated that global warming was caused by humans.   This is no longer conjecture.  It has not been conjecture in the scientific community for a very long time.

We humans must BEAR the cost of fixing this or we will suffer the consequences.  We are the only living beings that can do ANYTHING to change the world.  Even if we do something to mitigate the problems in our environment, we will have to adapt.  The ball is already rolling.  It's a big ball with lots of inertia.  The hysteresis lag in the response of the environment to activities that we do is on the order of a 100 years.  We are now seeing the effects of what we did 100 years ago.  In 100 years more we will still be seeing the effects of what we are doing now, even if we try to make amends for it.  We will absolutely be required to adapt before then!

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Joyner<mailto:jimstoytn at yahoo.com> 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:40 AM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Soil test and CEC


  From: Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com<mailto:sean.barry at juno.com>>

    
  I would like to mention again  . . .

  Sean, 

  While I think carbon sequestration is probably a good bet, anthropogenic causes are still something of a conjecture (I realize I may be somewhat politically incorrect here). While global climate change may be a given, there are more better and reasons to believe climate change is due to solar activity and their effect on cosmic rays.

  I bring this up, not to start an argument about climate change and causes but to point out that carbon sequestration will have an attendant cost and someone will have to bare it. The reason why I think carbon sequestration is still a good bet is because much the expense for it can be borne by the cost of cleaning up the Earth's air of pollution -- we know who is causing that and roughly who should pay for it.

  My other concern is that if humans are not causing climate change, we have an even bigger problem: adapting. We will need disparately to find better ways to feed people in a changing environment. We need to grow crops with better moisture and nutrient retention. So, I would put soil improvement on at least an equal footing with carbon sequestration if not a higher priority.

  Jim


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