Not everyone 'gets' soil carbon. A lot of people say they do, but they probably think it means biochar. After all, that is easy to understand. Soil carbon is a complex story. Editors and Ministers don't have much time for explanations. If you can't get it over in three sentences, they think, I won't be able to. So Matt Cawood's two page spread in the Rural Press newspapers this week - featuring the word "Conundrum" in the headline - is a triumph of persistence and good journalism.
The scary thing about this fungi/humus connection is that it seems to have come as a surprise to most of the professional defenders of the traditional ways.
Congratulations to Christine for articulating the Carbon Pathway so powerfully and leading the way to a new conceptual understanding of the dynamics of soil/plant relationships. She will be 'justified' on May 22 when she holds a Managing the Carbon Cycle Conference at which the first cheques for her Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme are handed over to the farmers involved. Holding it in Canberra makes such a statement to the official science establishment who threw the entire weight of their institutional disapproval against her and failed to stop this amazing woman - who, if my mate Peter Andrews deserves an "Australian Story", I'm sure he'll agree she deserves two.
We will give details about the May 22 Conference when they come to hand.
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