[Terrapreta] tipping point

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Lou, et al,

I agree 1000% (that's one thousand percent!) with what you just said, Lou.  Awareness of the imminent problems of GW/GCC and the dangers of continuing to use fossil carbon energy sources and the emitting of gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere has to be brought to the fore.  Terra Preta is exactly the kind of viable method for trying to deal with the rising CO2 concentrations that is needed.  It is as pertinent to speak about this in this room as the day is bright, the sky is blue, gravity exists, and agricultural soils need to be improved.

Never does anyone dismiss improving agricultural soils as OFF-TOPIC on this list.  Michael Bailles just said the other day that GCC and GW are valid and topical to this site.  Kurt, Kevin, and Greg, maybe before you continue to attempt to slay the messengers on this issue with your insulting and sometimes irrelevant diatribe; that is attacking and trying to censor guys like me, Lou Gold, Bill McGibbon, Jim Hansen, etc. maybe you ought to read some more outside sources?  Maybe you might form an opinion based on not needing to call me hysterical?

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lou gold<mailto:lou.gold at gmail.com> 
  To: Greg and April<mailto:gregandapril at earthlink.net> 
  Cc: Terra Preta<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] tipping point


  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  Bill McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. His The End of Nature, published in 1989, is regarded as the first book for a general audience on global warming.

  You may totally disagree, but this guy is not fluff. 

  The point, simply stated, is that many are drawing the tipping point conclusion and starting to seek for emergency strategies of adaptation. A massive program revising agricultural methods in order to sequester carbon in the soil (as suggested recently by James Hansen) is one of the options, an option that seems intimately connected to terra preta. And thus I see absolutely no reason to indicate that is somehow "off-topic" on a terra preta list. 

  It is your task to explain why you don't see carbon sequestration in the soil as related to terra preta.

  I'm waiting with interest.

  lou
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