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Biochar is No Climate Change Miracle Cure: George Monbiot
TreeHugger —
... agriculture into charcoal and bury it. Consider grain like wheat or rice; most of the plant mass is in the stems, stalks and roots and we only eat the seeds. So instead of just ploughing in the stalks or turning them into cardboard, make it into charcoal and bury it or sink it in the ocean. We don't need plantations or crops planted for biochar, what we need is a charcoal maker on every farm so the farmer can turn his waste into carbon. Hansen: We Never Said Biochar Was Miracle Cure Hansen's response was equally clear, Although we do mention waste-derived biochar as a possible ...
Jim Hansen on Biochar!!
arduous blog —
More from The Guardian's pages on biochar! Also, if you want to read Hansen's full report, go to. I am not going to read it because I have thousands and thousands of other reports that I have to procrastinate reading first. But if one of you pretty readers would like to read it, and then summarize said report, I and everyone else will ... tell you that you are pretty? And kewl? By the way, if you don't read The Guardian's environment section, I really, really recommend it. ...
Pyrolising the Planet
Monbiot.com —
The debate over biochar hots up. By George Monbiot. Published on my Guardian blog, 27th March 2009 Well that got ‘em going. So far James Lovelock , Jim Hansen and Pushker Kharecha , Chris Goodall and Peter Read have all responded in the Guardian to my column on biochar. Reading their responses, I realise that it was unfair of me to include James Lovelock and Jim Hansen on the list of those who have been suckered by the charleaders. Their position is more nuanced than I made out. Chris Goodall, to his credit, has accepted that he was too bullish about ...
Pyrolising the Planet
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia —
Pyrolising the Planet Biodiversity , Deforestation , Food Shortages , Global Warming/Climate Change , Soil Erosion & Contamination — by George Monbiot The debate over biochar hots up. by George Monbiot - journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist [image] Well that got ‘em going. So far James Lovelock , Jim Hansen and Pushker Kharecha , Chris Goodall and Peter Read have all responded in the Guardian to my column on biochar . Reading their responses, I ...
Renewables & biofuels - Apr 1
Energy Bulletin - —
... in the UK Guardian on March 24, 2009 that questioned the validity of biochar as a climate mitigation tool and the scientists and others who support the development of biochar. The Guardian has published responses from several of those biochar supporters mentioned by Mr. Monbiot, including James Hansen , ...
The Biochar Question–Part I
FUTURISM NOW —
... of Monbiot’s recent Guardian column. He’s been writing lately about what he sees as an over-dependence on the idea of using biochar to soak up CO2.
“Charleaders must cool enthusiasm for setting fire to the planet
Reactions to my ‘biochar’ stance got a lot of people fired up, but I was too soft on one champion of so-called development.
(March 27 2009) — “Well that got ‘em going. So far James Lovelock, Jim Hansen and Pushker Kharecha, Chris Goodall and Peter Read have all responded ...
Turning Charcoal Into Carbon Gold
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... storage. Carbon, in the form of wood from trees and agricultural waste, can be turned to charcoal and buried in the ground, so storing it away from the atmosphere. If enough carbon can be buried in this way, then it could bolster so-far feeble global attempts to address climate change through cuts greenhouse gas emissions. Making and burying biochar to help reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere has some heavy green backing, including scientist and author James Lovelock and Jim Hansen of Nasa. The journal Nature Reports Climate Change said that biochar " could be ...
