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A chat with climate skeptics whose documentary calls Gore 'not evil, just wrong'

U.S. House panel seeks farm payoff in climate change | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Agriculture Committee will canvass 400 groups for ways that American farmers can make money from efforts to control greenhouse gases, Chairman Collin Peterson said on Monday.
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While the lawmakers were upbeat, the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation told reporters last week that climate-change legislation may hurt, rather than help, the farm sector.

AFBF President Bob Stallman said emissions legislation could drive up the cost of fuel, fertilizer and pesticides while the payment per-acre for carbon control is low.

Columbia University scientists probe a stone age solution for global warming

Rocks, though, can capture carbon and render it into a solid, where it is virtually inert.

There’s a teeny problem. The rocks that are most effective at capturing carbon do so over thousands of years, naturally.

Researchers at the Columbia University’s Earth Institute are working on a process to speed that up a bit. It’s called mineral carbonation and involves dissolving carbon dioxide in water, injecting it into the rock and using the heat generated by the reaction to accelerate the mineralization.

Are we sure that the world would be a better place if we could speed up that process a bit?  Also, how much energy and money does this process burn?