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I am glad I am farming the CORRECT way to hold that Carbon in the SOIL... THANK YOU

Our regenerative lawn care over the past five years has absorbed 50 plus tones and counting of CO2. Thank you Elaine for your continued support!

I am so happy to know that I am doing my part in my yard and garden by planting trees and vegetables in my garden with out chemicals. PS they taste better too!

This chart suggests that temperature is just right now not coupled to the CO2 concentration in atmosphere. Perhaps there is a limit to that temperature increase by some mechanism.

Finally, some good news regarding climate change! Dr. Ingham's teachings give me hope for the future. Lets work the plan people!

Dr Johnson needs to publish his figures in a credible journal after peer review. I did much the same calculation several years ago, so the potential is there. However, people need to be aware that there are plenty of snake oil salesmen and people who over-promise and underperform in this area - even some get rich quick merchants! In my former home there is one character who has completely sabotaged any credibility that regenerative agriculture may have had locally by the way he operates. The field needs to weed out these types before they further ruin the public and government views of a promising methodology.

Desert soils that have almost no carbon are being regenerated to 5 or 6% carbon in 10 years. This amounts to 1/2% increase per year. Quantifying that means we would be sequestering approximately 74 tons of CO2 per hectare per year if the deserts were re-greened. This means that 34% of the Earth's deserts soils need to be regenerated in order to reverse climate change. This is doable, and people in the desert areas would thrive instead of having to immigrate to other countries because of poverty, and starvation.

The Soil Association’s report ‘Soil Carbon and Organic Farming’ estimates organic farming could sequester 560 kilos of carbon per hectare per year, or around 0.62 tones. That’s quite different to the 10-20 tones of carbon per hectare per year proposed by this video.

Is this number 10-20 tonne/ hectare just the fungi storing the carbon. Correct. Which is in other worlds below soil carbon sequestration. Which is accompanied by the plants above ground and their biomass itself is another method of adding to carbon sequestration.

Fantastically clear explanation for an extremely important revelation. Just what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

Is there a factor issue around the 10-20 tons of carbon per year number. All other numbers are in CO2e.. There is a factor of 3.67 (1 ton of Carbon is equal to 3.67 tons of CO2e)? It would make the maths even more alluring, although personally i think taking lower values for ranges/brackets makes for a more pragmatic message. Amazingly i cannot easily find a number/calculus for planetary net emissions (all sources-all sinks)..

Might be helpful to add the grafts on forest decline along with temperature rise and you left out carbon sequestration of the oceans, or the Milankovitch cycles,

What a great resource for schools, thanks Dr Elaine!

Great video, I started this year doing that with green coberture in my field Thanks a lot

Very interesting and informative video! I am currently doing an internship on modeling fungi in carbon sequestration and this helped a lot, thank you :) I was just wondering, where do you have the graph from that relates to the Co2 levels? Thank you very much in advance :)

Has dr Johnson published a paper on his findings yet?

What are we waiting for? let’s start it now #save soil

My sigil's main symbol is the CARBON ATOM, given to me in a dream after meditating. CARBON, the building block for life on earth creating stability for life & earth. CARBON, CREATION, STABILITY.

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