Fixing the carbon cycle with soil organic matter

[DataWizard223300]

Excellent idea

Not crazy enough perhaps

But one that should not just stop because it didn't win this competition

[GlennDoty]

Good video, and well argued. I'm not sure how you'd judge the viability of the agriculture techniques. Right now, due to biofuels (and the resulting food shortage), we're expanding our agriculture quickly... The tilling of new cropland is releasing billions of tons of sequestered CO2.

If you have a good agriculture technique to better keep CO2 sequestered, but that yields lower harvest and requires more new land tilled... then you lose.

How do you account for harvest levels, or crop type?

[scandypants86]

It is important that you note there is not a negetive correlation between agricultural management practices that sequester carbon, and yield. Conservation agriculture (the use of minimal or no till), proper rotations including legumes, and not havesting or bailing crop residues can results in net carbon uptake, and increased yields. That sir, is what we call a win win situation....