From: Monte Davis 

Richard B.  wrote:

>- Richard 

Not a bad move at all. Actually, there are simple and well-understood ways
to sequester a *lot* of carbon by agricultural practices that build up the
depth of soil. Dead plants that lie on the surface reelase carbon quickly;
dead plants that become soil can keep it locked up for centuries. The
annual CO2 "pulse" (down in the spring as the northern hemisphere
greens, up in the late fall) is larger than the average annual increase, so
if you could divert a lot of that fall return into the soil, you'd be ahead
of the game.

Trouble is, (1) those practices are rarely the ones that maximize crop
yield or profit, and (2) the social engineering of getting several billion
farmers to adopt them looks even farther out of reach than the
political/economic engineering of changing industrial and transportation
systems to release less CO2.

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