Ancient Method may Curb Global Warming

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Ancient Method, 'Black Gold Agriculture' May Revolutionize Farming, Curb Global Warming

ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2008) — Fifteen hundred years ago, tribes people from the central Amazon basin mixed their soil with charcoal derived from animal bone and tree bark. Today, at the site of this charcoal deposit, scientists have found some of the richest, most fertile soil in the world. Now this ancient, remarkably simple farming technique seems far ahead of the curve, holding promise as a carbon-negative strategy to rein in world hunger as well as greenhouse gases.
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At the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists report that charcoal derived from heated biomass has an unprecedented ability to improve the fertility of soil -- one that surpasses compost, animal manure, and other well-known soil conditioners.

They also suggest that this so-called "biochar" profoundly enhances the natural carbon seizing ability of soil. Dubbed "black gold agriculture," scientists say this "revolutionary" farming technique can provide a cheap, straight-forward strategy to reduce greenhouse gases by trapping them in charcoal-laced soil.

"Charcoal fertilization can permanently increase soil organic matter content and improve soil quality, persisting in soil for hundreds to thousands of years," Mingxin Guo, Ph.D., and colleagues report. In what they describe as a "new and pioneering" ACS report -- the first systematic investigation of soil improvement by charcoal fertilization -- Guo found that soils receiving charcoal produced from organic wastes were much looser, absorbed significantly more water and nutrients and produced higher crop biomass. The authors, with Delaware State University, say "the results demonstrate that charcoal amendment is a revolutionary approach for long-term soil quality improvement."

Soil deterioration from depletion of organic matter is an increasingly serious global problem that contributes to hunger and malnutrition. Often a result of unsustainable farming, overuse of chemical fertilizers and drought, the main weapons to combat the problem --compost, animal manure and crop debris -- decompose rapidly.

"Earth's soil is the largest terrestrial pool of carbon," Guo said. "In other words, most of the earth's carbon is fixed in soil." But if this soil is intensively cultivated by tillage and chemical fertilization, organic matter in soil will be quickly decomposed into carbon dioxide by soil microbes and released into the atmosphere, leaving the soil compacted and nutrient-poor.

Applying raw organic materials to soil only provides a temporary solution, since the applied organic matter decomposes quickly. Converting this unutilized raw material into biochar, a non-toxic and stable fertilizer, could keep carbon in the soil and out of the atmosphere, says Guo.

"Speaking in terms of fertility and productivity, the soil quality will be improved. It is a long-term effect. After you apply it once, it will be there for hundreds of years," according to Guo. With its porous structure and high nutrient- and water-holding capabilities, biochar could become an extremely attractive option for commercial farmers and home gardeners looking for long-term soil improvement.

The researchers planted winter wheat in pots of soil in a greenhouse. Some pots were amended with two percent biochar, generated from readily available ingredients like tree leaves, corn stalk and wood chips. The other pots contained ordinary soil.

The biochar-infused soil showed vastly improved germination and growing rates compared to regular soil. Guo says that even a one-percent charcoal treatment would lead to improved crop yield.

Guo is "positive" that this ground-breaking farming technique can help feed countries with poor soil quality. "We hope this technology will be extended worldwide," says Guo.

"The production of current arable land could be significantly improved to provide more food and fiber for the growing populations. We want to call it the second agricultural revolution, or black gold revolution!"

He suggests that charcoal production has been practiced for at least 3000 years. But until now, nobody realized that this charcoal could improve soil fertility until archaeologists stumbled on the aforementioned Amazonian soil several years ago.

Biochar production is straightforward, involving a heating process known as pyrolysis. First, organic residue such as tree leaves and wood chips is packed into a metal container and sealed. Then, through a small hole on top, the container is heated and the material burns. The raw organic matter is transformed into black charcoal. Smokes generated during pyrolysis can also be collected and cooled down to form bio-oil, a renewable energy source, says Guo.

In lieu of patenting biochar, Guo says he is most interested in extending the technology into practice as soon as possible. To that end, his colleagues at Delaware State University are investigating a standardized production procedure for biochar. They also foresee long-term field studies are needed to validate and demonstrate the technology. Guo noted that downsides of biochar include transportation costs resulting from its bulk mass and a need to develop new tools to spread the granular fertilizer over large tracts of farmland.

The researchers are about to embark on a five-year study on the effect of "black gold" on spinach, green peppers, tomatoes and other crops. They seek the long-term effects of biochar fertilization on soil carbon changes, crop productivity and its effect of the soil microorganism community.

"Through this long-term work, we will show to people that biochar fertilization will significantly change our current conventional farming concepts," says Guo.

Adapted from materials provided by American Chemical Society, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.

[romas]

Yes lets destroy rainforests & slaughter masses of animals so we can feed and multiply at a greater rate.

[mynameis]

I expect since nobody can earn profits from a free enterprise such as this benefits mankind the work will be discredited and shunned upon.

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What Global warming?

Temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years. Even the head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it.

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Yes lets destroy rainforests & slaughter masses of animals so we can feed and multiply at a greater rate.

obviously your ADHD prevented you from reading the entire article.

"Biochar production is straightforward, involving a heating process known as pyrolysis. First, organic residue such as tree leaves and wood chips is packed into a metal container and sealed. Then, through a small hole on top, the container is heated and the material burns. The raw organic matter is transformed into black charcoal. Smokes generated during pyrolysis can also be collected and cooled down to form bio-oil, a renewable energy source, says Guo."

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What Global warming?

Temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years. Even the head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it.


the global warming we experience living in the northeast USA, aka we get all 4 seasons. therefore it is easier to gauge temperature differentials.

i've also lived in the desert of the southwest USA, and the yearly monsoons are decreasing in length and regularity,and the summers start sooner and end later.

etcetcetc.

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What Global warming?

Temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years. Even the head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it.

youre a fake

[upsetbrit]

Years ago, people used to spread shells on the fields to return nutrients.
Then there's the farming method of burning the stubble (which i've not noticed here for years now i've come to mention it). Also there's volcanic ash, which is amazing for improving farmland.

What exactly are the amazon people supposed to be teaching us here? :confused:

We'll never go back to using traditional and working methods anyway. There's too much money at stake for the chemical companies.
The planet is going to hell because of the greed of a few.

IF they use this method, where exactly are the bones supposed to come from... Dead people?

"Graveyards overpopulated and cremation bad for environment" yeah i can see the headlines now.

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"youre a fake" :confused:

You now talk about Climate change which is NOT the same as global warming.

Take this!

The Great Global Warming HOAX - (Hint: It’s a pack of lies!)

We are all against Pollution (bar those pushing this scam who cause it), but Carbon Dioxide has NOTHING TO DO WITH Global Warming. This is about setting the legal framework for Global Government, international law and taxing you blind. Even the idea of ‘Greenhouse’ gases is a lie, except in an enclosed Greenhouse!

Bio-fuels are MORE polluting than Oil. It’s another scam and it’s killing people by starvation.

Temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years. Even the head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it.

· Sun: More activity since 1940 than in previous 1150 years, combined
· Mercury: Unexpected polar ice discovered, along with a surprisingly strong intrinsic magnetic field … for a supposedly “dead” planet
· Venus: 2500% increase in auroral brightness, and substantive global atmospheric changes in less than 30 years
· Earth: Substantial and obvious world-wide weather and geophysical changes
· Mars: “Global Warming,” huge storms, disappearance of polar icecaps
· Jupiter: Over 200% increase in brightness of surrounding plasma clouds
· Saturn: Major decrease in equatorial jet stream velocities in only ~20 years, accompanied by surprising surge of X-rays from equator
· Uranus: “Really big, big changes” in brightness, increased global cloud activity
· Neptune: 40% increase in atmospheric brightness
· Pluto: 300% increase in atmospheric pressure, even as Pluto recedes farther from the Sun

“Climate Change” phenomena are occurring, not just here on Earth, but, in fact throughout the entire solar system. So who’s driving SUV’s around the Solar System then?

1. Gore promoted the now-debunked “hockey stick” temperature chart for the past 1,000 years in an attempt to prove man’s overwhelming impact on the climate, and attempted to debunk the significance of the mediaeval warm period and little ice age. CO2 levels actually LAG BEHIND Temperature rises by some 800 years.
2. Gore insisted on a link between increased hurricane activity and global warming that most sciences believe don’t exist.
3. Gore asserted that today’s Arctic is experiencing unprecedented warmth while ignoring that temperatures in the 1930’s were as warm or warmer (NCDC, 2006);
4. Gore said the Antarctic was warming and losing ice but failed to note, that is only true of a small region and the vast bulk has been cooling and gaining ice.
5. Gore hyped unfounded fears that Greenland’s ice is in danger of disappearing.
6. Gore erroneously claimed that ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro is disappearing due to global warming, though satellite measurements show no temperature change at the summit, and the peer-reviewed scientific literature suggests that desiccation of the atmosphere in the region caused by post-colonial deforestation is the cause of the glacial recession.
7. Gore made assertions of massive future sea level rise that is way out side of any supposed scientific “consensus” and is not supported in even the most alarmist literature.
8. Gore incorrectly implied that a Peruvian glacier's retreat is due to global warming, while ignoring the fact that the region has been cooling since the 1930s and other glaciers in South America are advancing.
9. Gore blamed global warming for water loss in Africa's Lake Chad, though NASA scientists had concluded that local water-use and grazing patterns are probably to blame.
10. Gore inaccurately said polar bears are drowning in significant numbers due to melting ice when in fact 11 of the 13 main groups in Canada are thriving, and there is evidence that the only groups that are not thriving are in a region of the Arctic that has cooled. Animals and Plants flourish when CO2 is more abundant.
11. Gore did not tell viewers that the 48 scientists whom he quoted as having accused Bush of distorting science were part of a political advocacy group set up to support the Democrat Presidential candidate, John Kerry, in 2004.
Gore (Proven liar and Carbon Credit scam proponent) is now an adviser to the UK Government on climate change.

All Compact fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause kidney and brain damage. Enough to contaminate up to 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels, extrapolated from Stanford University research on mercury. Even the latest lamps promoted as “low-mercury” can contaminate more than 1,000 gallons of water beyond safe levels. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) offers a detailed, 11-step procedure you should follow for safe cleanup of broken bulbs, including vacating the premises for 2 – 3 days!

22,000 scientists, engineers and physicians signed a petition by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which opposes adoption of the Kyoto Protocol: http://www.oism.org/pproject/index.htm It’s a Myth that a Real Consensus exists among Scientist’s Supporting the Man-Made Global Warming Theory. The IPCC summarises real scientists work according to political policy and never asked them to be on their list. Many can’t get off the damned thing.

Total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere = 380ppm (parts per million). Man's contribution is approximately 3% of this figure. Total reduction if ALL Co2 emission worldwide was halted = 3% of 380 = 11.4ppm.
In other words it’s a total nonsense! Levels have been as high as 5000ppm in the past.

The Other Side of the Global Warming Debate: http://personals.galaxyinternet.net/tunga/OSGWD.htm

Read, See or Download ALL the following Articles via these links: (There’s far more but this serves as an introduction),

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/global_warming/index.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/220807_b_swindle.htm



· The Great Global Warming Swindle is a controversial documentary film by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the opinion that human activity is the main cause of global warming. The film showcases scientists, economists, politicians, writers, and others who are sceptical of the (so-called) scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming.
· The Great Global Warming Swindle - Supplementary Material
Additional, previously unseen, footage from the eye opening 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' documentary. It is broken down into 12 sections:
1. Climate History. 2. Sea Levels. 3. CO2. 4. Industrial Society. 5. IPCC. 6. Political Science. 7. Al Gore & Malaria. 8. Solar. 9. What Is To Be Done. 10. Our Climate Future. 11. Solar Variations And Clouds. 12. Some Real Science: Dr Tim Patterson’s, Professor of Geology Carleton University, presentation on his groups seven year research project on Marine Productivity in the North East Pacific. Funded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council Canada, it looks into Northern Pacific fisheries and their links to climate change. Some interesting data emerges regarding a connection to climate, sun activity and the amounts of fish in the water.
· CBC - Global Warming: Doomsday Called Off is a very good unbiased documentary about the real cause of global warming. Although I think that Martin Durkin’s The Great Global Warming Swindle is very informative, it is not the only documentary of its kind. In 2004, CBC (Canada) has produced a similar 45-minute-long film.It discusses many topics that are not covered in the Swindle such as the hockey stick graph, from the viewpoint of Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas.

· David Rothschild hypes global warming for the benefit of his elitist banker family, but gets a few facts wrong
· Sheryl Crow & Laurie David Exposed On Global Warming Scam
· The “Stranded Polar Bears” Photo PR Propaganda Hoax
· Edwards: Global Warming Will Make World War Look Like Heaven
· Frank Beckmann interviews filmmaker Martin Durkin about his ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’
· Alex Jones on the Global Warming Hoax



· Globalists Love Global Warming
· Global Warming Replaces 9/11 As Justification To Do Anything
· Brits Could Be Forced To Give Up Meat, Milk To Fight Global Warming
· What’s Next: A Breathing Tax?
· Europe Considers Banning Sports Cars For Global Warming
· Brown wants ‘new world order’ to fight global warming
· Enviro Mentalists Call For Culling Of Human Population
· Trilateral Globalists Call For Gas Tax Hike
· Families should have no more than two children – thinktank
· Denver targets citizens in global warming fight
· Denver’s green plan proposals called radical, ‘loony’ after hitting Web
· Counting on Failure, Energy Chairman Floats Carbon Tax
· Taxing Us for Breathing
· Man-Made Global Warming Is Politics Not Science
· Government Report: Bio-Weapons Could Be Used To Combat Overpopulation




· SUV’s On Jupiter? Are humans responsible for climate change in the solar system, or is it the sun?
· Top Global Warming Advocate: Jupiter & Saturn Closer To Sun Than Earth
· Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
· Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report
· Global Warming on Pluto Puzzles Scientists
· The truth about global warming - it’s the Sun that’s to blame
· Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds
· IPCC Models Fail to Accurately Predict Climate Change
· Powerful Documentary Trounces Man-Made Warming Hoax
· Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
· Climate scientist says global warming stopped in 1998
· Dimwits: Why ‘green’ lightbulbs aren’t the answer to global warming
· Global warming debate ‘irrational’: scientists
· An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change
· Global Warming: Not the End of the World as We Know It
· Acclaimed French Scientist Has Second Thoughts On Global Warming
· Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
· UC Physics Professor Says Global Warming Not Real
· ‘Global Warming’ Not Cause of Hurricanes
· German Biologist: Global Warming Is Good For US
· Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural; Not Caused By Human Activity
· Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth
· Sun Responsible for Global Warming
· Greenland ice cap thickens slightly
· Study: Sun’s Changes to Blame for Part of Global Warming
· Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions
· Greenhouse effect is a myth, say scientists
· Global ‘Sunscreen’ Has Likely Thinned, Report NASA Scientists
· Cosmic rays blamed for global warming
· Solar and Celestial Causes of Global Warming



· In the 1970’s, “Global Cooling” Was The New Threat
· Global Warming On The Ropes
· The Creeping Fascism of Global Warming Hysteria
· As Predicted: Global Warming Skeptics Linked With Holocaust Denial
· Not a “Consensus”: Three Quarters Believe Global Warming A ‘Natural Occurrence’
· They call this a consensus?
· ‘The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble’?
· I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train
· Not a “Consensus”: ABC-TV Meteorologist: I Don’t Know A Single Weatherman Who Believes ‘Man-Made Global Warming Hype’
· Nuremberg-Style Trials Proposed For Global Warming Skeptics
· Not a “Consensus”: Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
· Climate of Fear
· Not a “Consensus”: Colorado State professor disputes global warming is human-caused
· Not a “Consensus”: Indian experts question theory on global warming
· Global-warming skeptics cite being ‘treated like a pariah’
· Global Warming Deniers Are Like Holocaust Deniers
· Leading scientific journals ‘are censoring debate on global warming’
· Not a “Consensus”: ‘Scepticism’ over climate claims
· Not a “Consensus”: Prominent climate scientist calls warming fears ‘absurd’
· Scientists threatened for ‘climate denial’






· Sick And Tired Of Being Lectured By Global Warming Hypocrites
· A Bad Week For Al Gore
· The Live Earth Global Warming Fraud
· How Gore’s massive energy consumption saves the world
· Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
· Czech President Calls Man-Made Global Warming a Myth
· From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits: Is Global Warming a Sin?
· With five private jets, Travolta still lectures on global warming
· Climate change concert star Madonna accused of hypocrisy
· Save the planet , but spare us the platitudes of these ‘green’ politicians

Now ask yourself why the mainstream media is not mentioning any of this? (Hint: It’s a government propaganda machine Goebbells would have been proud of). A very small number of people control Newspapers, Books, Magazines, TV, radio, Advertising, Education, Grants, Satellite, Publishing Houses, etc… worldwide!

Ask yourself why banks, which are privately owned ventures (Rothschild), are allowed to invent money from thin air and you then have to pay them back via real blood, sweat and tears? Fractional Banking Practise CAUSES inflation!

Ask yourself why, if a Government can print bonds to use as security for interest bearing loans why it cannot just print money at NO INTEREST? Google Video Search for ‘Money as debt’ and ‘Bursting Bubbles of Government Deception’.

Now investigate the Vaccination scam (Hint: they give you brain damage, lower your immune response and have never eradicated any disease, nor do they protect you). Search Google Video for ‘Vaccines’ by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

The Fluoride scam, the GM foods scam, Aspartame, Food Chemicals and additives, the Big Pharma scam, the Terrorism scam, 9/11 and 7/7 (http://www.patriotsquestion911.com), Vote Fraud, the EU dictatorship, the UN scam, NATO scam, World bank scam, IMF scam, WWF scam, Gun Control lies, Dumbing Down Kids agenda, Eugenics, TV Hypnosis, The Free Trade lie, Surveillence scam, Secret Service criminals (they run the world’s drug rings, child trafficking rings, prostitution, assassinations, terrorism, you name it), Wars scam, The Council Tax scam (http://www.tpuc.org), the REAL Immigration Agenda (divide and conquer), Chemtrails, NASA lies… the list is never ending.

And don’t forget to check out that number on the back of your Birth Certificate (Hint: It’s your Stock number. You are slaves and treated like cattle). You don’t own any land. Slaves that think they are free don’t revolt.

Research on the web now, before they further restrict the only truly free source of unbiased information that’s left. Do not believe anyone, including me. You must start checking out the facts for yourself.

Your (selected not elected) Government doesn’t love you. They are your mortal enemy. Worldwide Corporate Fascist Dictatorship is your new future unless you WAKE UP! They are the biggest criminals ever (not incompetent)! One last thing… they don’t even govern. They take orders… but from whom exactly? Who is The Secret Government? Liberal, Conservative, Labour are to fool you into thinking you have a choice. It’s irrelevant who gets in because the agenda will continue regardless. Are you seeing the manipulations yet? Research Hegelian Dialectic. Communist Red China is the likely New World Order model. And yes… this all sounds absolutely incredible but unfortunately it’s also true.

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“If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay for the costs of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control the nation's credit.” Sir Josiah Stamp 1880-1941

“We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson [U.S. President during World War I]

“A world banking system was being set up here... A superstate controlled by international bankers...acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. The fed has usurped the government.” Louis McFadden (regarding the federal reserve/central banks)

Number of Energy Invention Suppression Incidents – 53; Number of Dead, Missing, or Injured Energy Inventors, Activists, and Associates – 13; Number of Energy Inventors Threatened with Death – 16; Number of Energy Researchers and Associates Imprisoned – 7; Number of Incidents Involving the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – 4; Number of Incidents Involving the US Government – 27; Number of Inventions Classified Secret by US Patent Office - Approximately 4000; Number of Incidents Involving Oil Companies – 9; Names of Oil Companies and Banks Involved - Standard, Atlantic Richfield, Shell Oil Company, World Bank, Wells Fargo Bank; Possibly Most Impressive Energy Invention - Philippines Inventor has Converted More than 100 Cars to Run Only on Plain Water! http://www.free-energy.zpod.biz