Agricultural Geo-Engineering; Past, Present & Future.

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Friday, March 7, 2014: 3:20 PM
Grand Sheraton, Camellia
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Erich J. Knight, Private Company, Shenandoah Gardens, mcgaheysville
Across scientific disciplines carbons are finding new utility to solve our most vexing problems

Historic hall marks of GHG emissions are reviewed, providing repeated demonstration of anthropogenic land use changes on climate forcing.
New Astrophysical and Paleoclimate concordance with extinction events demonstrating climate adaptation by prehistoric man.
A review of new research concerning Soil Carbon, Carboniferous Aerosols, extent of Pyrolytic-Carbon fraction in soil and the first survey of the extensive deep soil carbon sink.

How thermal conversion technologies can integrate and optimize the recycling of valuable nutrients while providing energy and building soil carbon.
New discoveries from the Advanced Spectrometry & Meta-Genomics studies in soil microbiology which demonstrate unaccounted for ecological services provided by a healthy soil. All extremely supportive to Carbon Farming initiatives & Soil Carbon Standards and GHG protocols.

Part and parcel to a healthy, high carbon and highly aggregated soil structure.

Integration of Agricultural bio-energy production with nutrient and carbon cycles, enhancing ecological services.

Exploring implications for human and animal health, extrapolating implementation at scale of bio-energy systems that conserve carbon for home health, energy and climate.

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