[Terrapreta] Does the amazon need some smoky Charcoal fires? :)

[Richard Haard]

Related to this topic was Ben's earlier posting. The interview was  
nested in a report that rainy season deforestation in Amazon  
rainforest has increased dramatically. 76% in relation to previous  
year and cloud cover may be concealing even more.

Here is a google translated page

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazonia.org.br+&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

This indicated the governments of the region do not have ability to  
regulate land use. A bigger issue than pyrolysis technology.
On May 9, 2008, at 2:55 AM, Michael Bailes wrote:

> Amazon Under Threat From Cleaner Air
>
> ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to  
> the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air  
> say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the journal  
> Nature.
>
> . . .
> Co-Author Dr Carlos Nobre of the Brazilian Institute for Space  
> Research adds: "Global warming, deforestation and increased forest  
> fires are all acting in synergy to reduce the resilience of the  
> Amazonian forests."
>
> Sulphate aerosol particles arising from the burning of coal in power  
> stations in the 1970s and 1980s have partially reduced global  
> warming by reflecting sunlight and making clouds brighter. This  
> pollution has been predominantly in the northern hemisphere and has  
> acted to limit warming in the tropical north Atlantic, keeping the  
> Amazon wetter than it would otherwise be
> FROM:
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507133259.htm

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