tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22683438.post5671894985111351913..comments2023-10-24T18:37:43.368+11:00Comments on Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming: Biochar threatens biodiversity and soil biology?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22683438.post-91200582034783901972009-05-30T22:24:26.100+10:002009-05-30T22:24:26.100+10:00Hi,
We have just added your latest post "Carbon C...Hi,<br /><br />We have just added your latest post "Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming: Biochar threatens biodiversity and soil biology?" to our <A HREF="http://www.scienz.info" REL="nofollow"> Directory of Science </A> . You can check the <br /><br />inclusion of the post <A HREF="http://scienz.info/story.php?title=carbon-coalition-against-global-warming-biochar-threatens-biodiversity-and-soil-biology" REL="nofollow"> here <br /><br /></A> . We are delighted to invite you to submit all your future posts to the <A HREF="http://www.scienz.info" REL="nofollow">directory</A> and get a huge base of visitors to <br /><br />your website.<br /><br /><br />Warm Regards<br /><br />Scienz.info Team<br /><br />http://www.scienz.infoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22683438.post-26825006000500085752009-05-23T02:14:30.392+10:002009-05-23T02:14:30.392+10:00I feel there is plenty of biomass for both char an...I feel there is plenty of biomass for both char and the soil wee-beasties.<br />Work by Dr. Brown at ISU is showing 2/3 of corn stover can sustainably be converted to biochar.<br /><br />Wise Land management; Organic farming and afforestation can build back our soil carbon,<br /><br />Biochar allows the soil food web to build much more recalcitrant organic carbon, ( living biomass & Glomalins) in addition to the carbon in the biochar.<br /><br />Biochar viewed as soil Infrastructure; The old saw;<br />"Feed the Soil Not the Plants" becomes;<br />"Feed, Cloth and House the Soil, utilities included !".<br />Free Carbon Condominiums with carboxyl group fats in the pantry and hydroxyl alcohol in the mini bar.<br />Build it and the Wee-Beasties will come.<br />As one microbiologist said on the Biochar list; "Microbes like to sit down when they eat".<br />By setting this table we expand husbandry to whole new orders of life.<br /><br />This is what I try to get across to Farmers, as to how I feel about the act of returning carbon to the soil. An act of pertinence and thankfulness for the civilization we have created. Farmers are the Soil Sink Bankers, once carbon has a price, they will be laughing all the way to it.<br /><br />One aspect of Biochar systems are Cheap, clean biomass stoves that produce biochar and no respiratory disease. At scale, the health benefits are greater than ending Malaria.<br />A great example;<br />http://www.unccd.int/publicinfo/poznanclimatetalks/docs/Natural%20Draft%20Stove.pdf<br /><br />The biochar Fund is also doing amazing work in the developing world;<br />http://terrapretapot.org/<br /><br />Also , I would like Rebut the BioFuelWatch folk's recent criticisms with the petition of 1500 Cameroon Farmers to have the UN recognize Soil Carbon Sequestration as a CDM;<br />The Biochar Fund<br />http://biocharfund.org/<br />and to explain their program;<br />http://biocharfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=46<br /><br />The USDA-ARS have dozens of studies happening now to ferret out the reasons for char affinity with MYC fungi and microbes, but this synergy is solidly shown by the Japanese work, literally showing 1+1=3. <br />The 1996 Japanese paper; Microbial Fertilizers in Japan. It contained quite a bit on charcoal (no use of the term "biochar" - so this wouldn't likely show up in most google searches), and some interesting synergistic results from pot trials. It proved again to me that we need to be in better communication about biochar with the Japanese. Much of the paper is on AMF -arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.<br /><br />http://www.agnet.org/library/eb/430/<br /><br />Also,<br />Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil – concepts<br />and mechanisms<br />Daniel D. Warnock & Johannes Lehmann &<br />Thomas W. Kuyper & Matthias C. Rillig<br />http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/publ/PlantSoil%20300,%209-20,%202007,%20Warnock.pdfErich J. Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10995702794016834400noreply@blogger.com