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Thanks for this Chris (4.00 / 1)

Great coverage on this bill.

I'd love a tree-planting program.  I also think it's very important that we also have a rainforest restoration program, particularly in the Amazon.

Also, if we're talking about geo-engineering, prepare for that debate to get hijacked by "carbon sequestering" and other such nonsense.

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by: TValley @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 10:27:12 AM CDT

I'm not sure if tree planting is going to do the job (4.00 / 2)

definitely not in the U.S., where reforestation is already taking place as small farms deserted long ago are grown over. The same phenomenon is already taking place in some areas in Central America (I believe Costa Rica and Panama are the examples I heard, but don't hold me to that) as rural people move to the cities to find work and leave small farms behind. Brazil is a different beast, though. Don't get me wrong, I love planting trees as much as the next guy (I'm a Ph.D. student in plant/coral reef biology) but I don't think it's going to be sufficient. A great blog on climate change and coral reefs is www.climateshifts.org , written by one of the leading scientists in the field.

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by: LockeOak @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 10:45:25 AM CDT

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Bio-capture portfolio (0.00 / 0)

We really need a portfolio of biological capture mechanisms. Trees are good. Algae can also be good. One of the things to be sure of is that the organisms don't quickly get decomposed by bacteria.

But the sad fact is we've dug up and burned 10s of 1,000,000s of years worth of "captured" biomass in the past millenium. Rebalancing that will require some mechanism (still possibly biological) to create non-gaseous carbon that's also biologically inedible.

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by: Josh Koenig @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 16:33:00 PM CDT

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I'm Thinking Maybe (0.00 / 0)

Some combo of algae and nanotechnology?  If we can get the nanotech to self-replicate, then we'd really have something.

'Course then we'd have the whole nanotechnology-taking-over-the-planet problem.

Details, details....

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 10:27:44 AM CDT

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