Soil sequestration - another ideal that hasn't been grounded
As a practical soil scientist who has worked across the arid and wettest areas of Australia, I specified to my old University ( Melbourne ) why soil sequestration would not work as a carbon sink in any areas of productive agricultural production in Australia ( it could be used in really moist ecosystems possibly )( over 10 years ago)
An incentive for retaining organic matter in soils has appeal but not just for carbon compound storage .
Without the people in the bush (that used to be there) to mediate, the use of numbers and figures to offer incentives ( also questionable in cost benefit ) would be very wrong.
The idea does not recognize the complexity of determining sound organic matter levels in a great variety of soils and seasons and crops and the greater need and benefit for sound ecological partnerships between farmers and scientists in the bush. . .
The idea and the desperation for sequestration methods has been so great that other countries have fallen for this unsustainable ambition ,;
so the pressure grows again back here , from people like former PM John Anderson and Professor Batterham (Feature in The Australian July 2021)
Until i find my original post I will not explain why the soil biome and the practical incentive expectation's are unsustainable as listed in those notes
here is a more recent response
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/46/11652
Labels: sequestration soil sequestration
posted by journeymanj at 5:00 AM
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Thankfully so far the conservatives i Australia have resisted the nonsense going on under the EU mandate to be clever ;
As that clever and wonderful prophet Jeremy Clarkson shows on Clarksons farm ( trying to deal with government trying to help farmers and the world with paper and subsidy and dependancy trails )
ABC radio national bemoan the new free trade agreement, but as usual have no idea why so much carbon crap has hit the dustbin.
THE ABC do not employ enough people with experience or listen to them ( RN is still a better example than many areas like ABCTV and its endless commentariat .
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