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[Jerry B <liberty AT kaballero.com>]

Errr, I inadvertently deleted that I was thinking of posting to Allen 
Yeomans himself.

Jerry B wrote:
> I really do want to get to the bottom of these issues. There are very 
> few things more important to me.
> I may paraphrase these comments and make it clear his comments will be 
> published here. I think there is a good chance he will reply.
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> The more available and tapped by the plants roots,  the more of these 
> Carbon ladened substances are deposited in the soil, and more carbon 
> deposited and so on.  As long as the elements of sun, water, and air can 
> get to the roots. Without a hard-pan layer blocking the forces of 
> gravity,  the burrowing of creatures (ie earthworms) and especially the 
> channel formation from decaying roots, these substances move further 
> downwards.  all this played a part also in depositing carbon under the 
> oceans and land in the form of oil and coal.
>
> Rather ironically, given present attention, the soil under virgin 
> forests and jungles is relatively devoid of this action, hence carbon.  
> Tree roots may last for long periods of time, unlike grasses, without 
> decay, and are in the main, run quite shallow. It can take thousand of 
> years to get past the solid substratum formed under forests and jungles 
> ... thanks Allen.  I was not sufficiently aware of that fact. 
>
> jerry b
> ------------------------
> Gene GeRue wrote:
>   
> > On Jan 31, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Don Bowen KI6DIU wrote:
> >
> >   
> > And that brings us to why I am skeptical about the carbon  
> > sequestration premise. The carbon gets into the soil through the  
> > plants. It gets down to the roots. But the next crop or the next crop  
> > after will be eating the nutrients the microorganisms produce when  
> > they are eating those roots. Why should the carbon stay down there?
> >     
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