Growing plants and then burying them or incorporating them into soil is one of the few practical and efficient things we can do to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it. Agricultural wastes such as rice husks, when incorporated into soil at the site of production, readily mineralize, becoming encased in silica, preventing …
[Update: Aryeh has asked me to change instances of his well-known full name to his Wikipedia handle “Simetrical”, to reduce the impact on Google.] Simetrical has taken up an opposing position to my foundation-l post, which was copied to this blog under the title Should Wikimedia buy RECs. In the interests of avoiding offence to …
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Should the Wikimedia Foundation do something about climate change? Here’s what I said on foundation-l: Given the lack of political will to make deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, and the pitiful excuses politicians make for inaction; given the present nature of the debate, where special interests fund campaigns aimed at stalling any progress by …