Monday, June 06, 2011

Here's an idea: Why not spend "at least" $200 million on an insane plan to plant trees instead of crops for a carbon dioxide hoax farming initiative?

Tree farming for carbon won't take over - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - General - Stock Journal
TREES won't blanket the rural landscape, and farmers won't initially make a killing from soil carbon - but the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) could be the platform that encourages innovation in pulling carbon from the atmosphere into land ecosystems, a new report says.

Produced by global consultancy firm AECOM for The Climate Institute, the report looked at assessments of carbon sequestration potential in the Australian landscape and concluded that the most conservative forecast was likely the best one.
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"You won't see the Murray-Darling Basin coated in trees, for many reasons, among them the fact that food production will tend to be more profitable than carbon plantings.
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The Institute is calling for the CFI to be supported by "at least" a $200 million, four-year investment in research and extension.

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