by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Q: Is hemp a good solution for carbon sequestration (carbon sinks) and/or beneficial to the environment? A: No, not really. In general, hemp only acts as a carbon sink while it is growing and left unharvested. The harvesting usually negates any net-negative carbon sink. (ie more CO2 is released […]
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The Hemp Myth, Carbon Sinks and the Environment
Posted in Education, Environment, Global Warming, health and wellness, Science
Also tagged carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, carbon sink, climate change, hemp, ozone, trees
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Emissions Worst Ever
The World Meteorological Organization reported on October 30, 2017: Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record Green-House-Gas-Bulletin-2017.pdf Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The abrupt changes in the atmosphere witnessed in […]
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Climate Change Breaks Multiple Records with Global Impacts
The World Meteorological Organization (WHO) issued a report that states records for 2016: a record global temperature exceptionally low sea ice unabated sea level rise ocean heat Extreme weather and climate conditions have continued into 2017. “This report confirms that the year 2016 was the warmest on record – a remarkable 1.1 °C above the […]
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Also tagged climate change, coral bleaching, droughts, extreme weather events, floods, green house gases, ice melting, sea level rising, wildfires
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Humans Set World Pollution Record
by Daniel Brouse Scientists wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience, “Given currently available records, the present anthropogenic carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million years.” The largest known natural surge is believed to have happened 56 million years ago and was likely caused by a release of frozen methane beneath the seabed. […]
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Carbon Dioxide Breaks 800,000 Year Record
NOAA — For 800,000 years before the twentieth century, carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere never exceeded 300 parts per million. Then the Industrial Revolution began, and modern human civilization started burning through millions of years of fossilized carbon in the geological blink of an eye. NOAA scientists reported that in March 2015 the monthly […]
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