When the Coalition spoke to Dr Graeme Pearman at a DPI climate change seminar in Orange 6 months ago, he poured cold water on the concept of soil carbon trading, saying the amounts that could be captured and stored were too small and the measurment issues to great to overcome. He was following the "AGO Line".
What a difference 6 months makes. In The Land, (8/11/07), he says he can see the day when 'carbon trading will become so important that methodologies will be obtained so that landholders who can accumulate carbon in their soils will be compensated for it." He urged 'carbon farmers' to engage quickly with the issue or face the same losses the landholders forced to stop clearing native vegetation made because they were not signed up to a trading market.
Dr Pearman is the former head of the CSIRO's Climate Science unit. He is now based at Monash University. ABC 4Corners reports that Dr Pearman was silenced on 6 occasions by CSIRO management when he tried to talk publicly about the need to reduce emmissions an the need for a market in carbon. He was eventually told he had no future with the CSIRO. (Many of our national institutions has been politicised by the Howard Government, according to many independent reports, including the Buerau of Meteorology and the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics. The Bush Administration has also subverted the US Environment Protection Authority and other bodies.
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