A Crucial Climate Mystery Hides Just Beneath Your Feet

[rangerrebew]

    Nathanael Johnson Science   Date of Publication: 04.13.17.
     
 
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What Jonathan Sanderman really wanted was some old dirt. He called everyone he could think of who might know where he could get some. He emailed colleagues and read through old studies looking for clues, but he kept coming up empty.

Sanderman was looking for old dirt because it would let him test a plan to save the world. Soil scientists had been talking about this idea for decades: Farmers could turn their fields into giant greenhouse gas sponges, potentially offsetting as much as 15 percent of global fossil fuel emissions a year, simply by coaxing crops to suck more CO2 out of the air.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/crucial-climate-mystery-just-feet/

[Joe Wooten]

Hmmmmm......instead of chasing a chimera supposedly in the soil, how about doing something real, like genetically modifying a plant to take in more CO2? These "climate change" morons are always wanting to do something that is either very painful to the vast majority of folks, or something that won't work at all, preferably both.