[Stoves] Biochar is making its way into the oceans,

[Ron]

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On Apr 21, 2013, at 2:05 PM, "Philip Lloyd" <plloyd at mweb.co.za> wrote:

> Dear Stovers
> 
> Crispin has drawn attention to the "horror finding" that significant amounts
> of organic carbon are finding their way into the oceans.
> 
    RWL:   Not exactly.  Crispin reported that an article was being discussed on the WUWT list.  I don't think anyone in that loop had read the article - and they certainly didn't understand it.  I presume Crispin's motive, like Watts', was to disparage anything related to the need for carbon negativity.

> It is fun teasing these people. Were they aware that fire is a major part of
> forest regeneration? Indeed, some seeds require smoke in the moisture they
> receive in order to germinate.  Did they know that the deforestation of the
> US, that took place between 1850 and 1920, was of the same size as the
> Amazon Basin?
> 
   RWL.  I guess " fun teasing" says it all.  I don' understand the point of the following so will stop here.   Ron

Ps. I have read you recent material at WUWT.

> Some 30 years ago I studied 'waldsterben' in the Harz Mountains.  By soil
> sampling we found that every 150 years or so, the floor of the forest had
> burned - but when we sampled it, it was 200 years since the last burn, and
> the trees were now dying from old age.  Man had not wished to live with
> forest fires, and had put them out, so the forests had aged unnaturally, and
> 'waldsterben' had nothing to do with acid rain, and everything to do with
> man not understanding Nature.
> 
> Is it a disaster that carbon now enters rivers and goes to the sea?
> 
> Laugh, and the world laughs with you!
> 
> Philip Lloyd 
> 
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