Purposeful carbon sequestration in soil organic matter will require huge amounts of additional fertilizer production, with its own contributions to fossil fuel emissions and contamination of surface and groundwater
Category: carbon sequestration
Embodied Energy in Housing
If we tear down an old building and replace it, we incur new costs of embodied energy in construction materials
William H. Schlesinger
carbon sequestration, climate, environmental policy, faculty, forests, marine studies
carbon sequestration, climate, environmental policy, faculty, forests, marine studies
Can we harvest our way to a better climate?
In the short-term, forests harvested for biomass energy actually put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than burning fossil fuels,
William H. Schlesinger
agriculture, carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, renewable energy
agriculture, carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, renewable energy
Grasping at Straws
Removing 5% of annual emissions by the spreading of rock dust on agricultural lands worldwide is a band-aid approach to a global hemorrhage.
William H. Schlesinger
carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy
carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy
The Woody Biomass Hoax
Since most of the wood pellets are derived from newly harvested trees, the immediate impact on Earth’s climate is worse than coal.
Cement
The emission of carbon dioxide from the production of cement current accounts for about 5% of the total annual industrial emissions of CO2.
The Climate Underground
We can’t count on better management of soils to solve the climate crisis
Negative Emissions by Forests
Trees remove a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Woody Biomass Fuels
Trees are the most efficient net-negative emissions technology that we know of.
The Forests are Burning
The incidence of forest fire is likely to increase in a warmer, drier world.