[Terrapreta] maybe controversial

[lou gold]

Ron, thanks for bringing up Hansen's latest urgent warning.

There is a great set of links and discussion (full of controversy) at Andy
Revkin's Dot.earth.


http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/back-to-1988-on-co2-says-nasas-hansen/



On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Ron Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net>
wrote:

>  Greg and list members:
>
>    I am primarily involved actively in promoting biochar because of my
> conviction that we are facing a very dire future because of global warming.
> I have come to this conclusion over many years - but find my best source of
> information on this from the writings of Jim Hansen.  He sent a citation for
> a new short piece out a few days ago:
> http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20080410_YankeeTicketPrices.pdf<http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/20080410_YankeeTicketPrices.pdf>
>
>     This is by far the most serious warning I have heard him make.  If
> anyone knows of a better authority on the subject than Jim Hansen, I hope
> they will let us know.
>
>     In this latest "Yankees" writing, there is reference to another
> unpublished article (submitted to Science) that is the best single piece I
> have seen on the evidence for man's involvement.  I hope you will read
> especially this second one, which can be found at
> http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
>
> and the Supporting Material is at:
>
> http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1135
>
>     Jim mentions biochar there.  If you (or anyone) remain unconvinced, I
> hope you will let us know why.
>
>     Apologies to all who think this is off target for this list.  I think
> we need to understand why some list members are disbelievers and do what we
> can to convert them.  If we do not have climate urgency going for us, the
> biochar topic will move much too slowly.
>
> Ron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Greg and April <gregandapril at earthlink.net>
> *To:* Terra Preta <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:44 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] maybe controversial
>
>          <snip>
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