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Soils and Global Warming: A Positive or Negative Feedback?

Soils and Global Warming: A Positive or Negative Feedback?. Global soils have a large C pool Rates of cycling of this pool indicate that they can affect/respond to atmospheric processes on annual to decadal time scales

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Soils and Global Warming: A Positive or Negative Feedback?

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  1. Soils and Global Warming: A Positive or Negative Feedback? Global soils have a large C pool Rates of cycling of this pool indicate that they can affect/respond to atmospheric processes on annual to decadal time scales One of the immediate effects of human induced global change is warming - will that change soil C?

  2. Soil C and Temperature dC/dt = I - kC Climate change may change inputs Will climate change loss rates? (k) Virtually all studies show it will (at least on short term)\ Microbes increase rates, decompose the most readily accessable C materials (and therefore increase CO2 losses) Some recent discussions have confused soil respiration vs. MAT with the need to know rate (K vs. MAT). Led to highly publicized view that soils will exacerbate global CO2 buildup during warming….

  3. The contrast between rate and total respiration- respiration must be normalized to the amount of reactant available (k) Decomposition rates Soil Carbon temperature Resulting soil respiration rates

  4. Sierra Nevada Soils as Guide to Climate Response

  5. A Simple Analysis of How Soils May Respond to Global Warming Based on Changes in ka one time 0.5C increase in temperature:results based on Sierran soils

  6. Simple Analysis Assuming Constant Warming (0.03C/yr)

  7. Soils in the UN Climate Change Negotiations (Kyoto Protocol) UN “assessment report” of CO2 increases and its climatic and ecological ramifications presents a chilling view of next century Ratifying Kyoto Protocol would obligate Industrial (Annex 1) countried to reduce their CO2 emissions during the period 2008 to 2012 to levels below their production in 1990 This ‘reduction’ merely slows the rate of CO2 buildup in atmosphere, and doesn’t stop it. Ways countries can reduce net CO2 emissions: Reduce fossil fuel consumption Increase C storage (forests, soils, etc) Pay Annex 2 countries (tropics) to stop deforestation

  8. Present Status of UN Climate Change Agreement Visit web site http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/items/2627.php Should have enough countries to ratify agreement and implement it US has not signed-will face financial sanctions Individual countries taking more aggressive stance: e.g. Britian wants to go to ~ 40% renewable energy in 50 years….

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