[Terrapreta] Academies of Science Call Industrialized Countries to Lead Climate Challenge

[David Yarrow]

more front line news about the accelerating consensus toward action on climate change.  

however, still no mention of "carbon-negative", "food footprint" or "soil sequestration", much less likely: "biochar."

seems the brightest minds in the highest places still don't have a clear focus on fundamental factors in ecological viability and climate stability: soil fertility, where fertility is not measured as inventory of chemical components, but as a biological community -- the "microbial reef" -- invisibly tiny living complexity that inhabits the thin skin of the land and supports all the larger, younger lifeforms.

but they're funding the scientists who are piecing the puzzle together again.


G8 Academies of Science 
Call on Industrialized Countries 
to Lead Climate Challenge 
By Andrew C. Revkin, NYTimes, June 11, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/11climate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The scientific academies of 13 countries on Tuesday urged the world to act more forcefully to limit the threat posed by human-driven global warming. In a joint statement, the academies of the Group of 8 industrialized countries -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States -- and of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa called on the industrialized countries to lead a 'transition to a low-carbon society' and aggressively move to limit impacts from changes in climate that are already under way and impossible to stop. 

The statement [PDF, 2 pp], posted by the Nation Academy of Science in the United States, urged the Group of 8 countries to move beyond last year's pledge to consider halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and 'make maximum efforts' to reach this target."

http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/climatechangestatement.pdf
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