Scientist's plan to bury global warming
"A New Zealand economist is promoting a massive worldwide programme of planting crops and burying charcoal to avoid catastrophic global warming.
"Dr Peter Read, a researcher at Massey University, has just convened a workshop sponsored by international agencies in Paris to stave off what he calls 'the mother of all catastrophes' ...
"He said the Kyoto Protocol, which requires most developed countries to cut back their emissions of global-warming 'greenhouse gases' to slightly below 1990 levels, might be too modest to avoid disaster.
In contrast, a massive global programme of planting crops and ploughing organic matter back into the soil could cut carbon dioxide back to pre-1800 levels -- and feed poor countries at the same time."
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"A New Zealand economist is promoting a massive worldwide programme of planting crops and burying charcoal to avoid catastrophic global warming.
"Dr Peter Read, a researcher at Massey University, has just convened a workshop sponsored by international agencies in Paris to stave off what he calls 'the mother of all catastrophes' ...
"He said the Kyoto Protocol, which requires most developed countries to cut back their emissions of global-warming 'greenhouse gases' to slightly below 1990 levels, might be too modest to avoid disaster.
In contrast, a massive global programme of planting crops and ploughing organic matter back into the soil could cut carbon dioxide back to pre-1800 levels -- and feed poor countries at the same time."
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