[Terrapreta] Jim Hansen on our side

[lou gold]

Yes! This is an incredibly important statement. It moves the whole discourse
from fear to hope. It won't be easy to design the details but this is the
way we must go.




On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Folke Günther <folke at holon.se> wrote:

>  In a recent letter (yesterday), Jim Hansen says:
>
> There is tremendous potential for reducing atmospheric CO2 via reduction
> of
>
> deforestation, improved forestry practices, and *improved agricultural
> practices that*
>
> *increase carbon storage in the soil*. If governments were to encourage
> such practices,
>
> rather than the converse, and if coal use were phased out except where the
> CO2 is
>
> captured, it would be possible to literally roll back the net human-made
> climate forcing to
>
> levels below those defining critical tipping points.
>
> We must remember, at the same time, that the ability of the principal CO2 sink,
> the ocean,
>
> to soak up human-made emissions is limited and slow (Figure 1). If we burn
> most of the
>
> available coal (Figure 3) without CO2 capture, even with the lowest
> estimates of available
>
> coal reserves, it will be impractical if not impossible to avoid passing
> climate tipping
>
> points with disastrous consequences.
>
> (My italics)
>
> FG
>
>
>
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