Enhancement of natural carbon sinks would allow a more orderly withdrawal of fossil fuels from our economy during the next several decades.
Category: carbon sequestration
carbon sequestration
Geo-engineering II: The sea
if we added iron to a large area of the world’s oceans, we could dramatically lower the level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
The CO2 storage capacity of areas favorable for CCS in the United States amounts to 150 x 1015 g of CO2—equivalent to about 25 years of our emissions at current levels.
Reflections from the Forest
When forests cover the landscape, they increase the absorption of incoming sunlight
Not the Time to Get Bogged Down
When the arctic is melting rapidly, this is no time to get bogged down in conservative rhetoric.
Oh Tannenbaum
Buy a live Christmas tree and plant it in the early spring when it can resume its role to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Biofuel forests for the future?
The forest products industry likes to cut trees, but trees are the most efficient way we know to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Bill Schlesinger
biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, conservation, faculty, forests, lakes and streams
biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, conservation, faculty, forests, lakes and streams
Designer Ecosystems
Global survey of restoration projects found only 25% of the ecosystem services provided by nature were found in the restored systems.
Biochar Revisited
With liberal assumptions, the maximum apparent rate of carbon sequestration in biochar is only about 2% of the current annual emissions of carbon, as carbon dioxide, to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion
Bill Schlesinger
biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, climate, faculty, forests, population growth
biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, climate, faculty, forests, population growth
Human carbon
there is a direct and powerful correlation between the rise of the human population and the rise of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere during the past few decades.