[Terrapreta] IPCC Summary for Policy Makers

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from   Lewis L Smith

Thanks to Lou Gold for all his trouble and the very interesting 
information which he turned up.

We really have our work cut out for us.  ###


-----Original Message-----
From: lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>
To: still.thinking at computare.org
Cc: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
Sent: Mon, Nov 19  4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] IPCC Summary for Policy Makers

Hi to All,

Today, I went to the searchs within  climate blogs and the websites of 
mainstream large environmental organiztions. I searched "terra preta" 
at about 20 sites and got almost NO results. I'm afraid we are the new 
kids in the neighborhood. The IPCC is huge and now very 
institutionalized which means a big lag time for anything not in 
standard envelopes.


In the upcoming Bali talks, they will finally be considering payments 
for avoided or reduced deforestation.  Brazil has protected millions of 
acres of carbon stored in forests in the past several years with NO 
economic rewards. This has been a no brainer for years but is only now 
being considered.


I take two lessons from this: 1) we must work hard to build awareness 
of char in all types of media streams and 2) it is going to take awhile 
for it to get on the agenda for actual/practical decisions.

lou




On Nov 19, 2007 2:40 PM, Duane Pendergast still.thinking at computare.org> 
wrote:


















Edward,


 


 


If there is a call for nominations for the Fifth Assessment
Report, Google does not seem to know about it. Here is some schedule 
speculation
from the US DOE.


 


http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/partnerships/doe_current.html



 


Maybe they would like to model Terra Preta?


 


By the way, I had difficulty replying to your message. It
seemed to garble the screen by reprinting your message on it many 
times. Maybe
it's just my computer.


 


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Question from Edward Someus


 


Is there any new 2007 call for Nominations to serve as
Authors of the IPCC Assessment? 


 


 







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