[Stoves] Off-topic: Mayor Pete invokes "carbon negative farm"

[Russell deLucia]

Nikhil

In haste as at end of 12+ hour day.

Have I informed u about allteh work my friend Charl Lawes doing on biochar?

Answer yes or no I will try to follow up.

Regsrds

Russ



*From:* Nikhil Desai [mailto:pienergy2008 at gmail.com]
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*Subject:* Off-topic: Mayor Pete invokes "carbon negative farm"



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/11/21/the-energy-202-pete-buttigieg-polling-high-in-iowa-targets-farmers-with-climate-message/5dd58a8c602ff1184c31670a/
This Washington Post story doesn't mention if this US presidential
candidate has biochar in mind, but he might. Will need to discover more
from this campaign. Or biochar activists could alert him that corn ethanol
probably isn't that big in "carbon negative" terms. (I haven't checked
lately.)

"I believe that the quest for the carbon-negative farm could be as big a
symbol of dealing with climate change as the electric car in this country,"
Buttigieg said during the debate." Sensible words, shifting the focus away
from power sector. Indiana is only behind Texas (lignite and some sub-bit)
in coal consumption. Open grass and crop burning, and other land-based GHG
emissions, are not properly accounted for in IPCC inventorying and even
less in the FCCC "agreements:". What land and sea biota do to the climate
and how they are in turn affected by climate change are, to me, still wild
guesses. See this interesting article on the chemistry of micro-ecosystems
of the Amazon and think at the global scale -
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/drone-based-monitoring-system-reveals-important-information-on-the-health-of-the-amazon/
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