Essay,........... totally with you,
As the ACS paper speculated about the GHG effect of CO2 soil emissions , it's proximity to respiring plant canopy, it's not a GHG till it makes it above the trees.
Phillip,...........Beautifully said , Ever since Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch soil chemistry has trumped soil bio-chemistry, the worms are turning now!
"Pedology and CO2
Something very positive can be expected for soil that is not captured in the shifting soil order paradigm. For plants and soil microbes, richer solute content would mean greater availability of mineral nutrients.
In soil husbandry and slow food circles, higher mineral availability translates to healthier soil, lower plant disease, and more nutritious harvests.
What the shifting soil order paradigm does signal is that soils will be at greater risk of losing their fertility to leaching. Having the soil chockablock full of biochar will be essential to mitigate this last effect.
Let's start now. "
P.S. A great review of Haber's biography today, an object lesson maybe for us chartarians in the dangers of timidity and the need for acceptance, that can distort great accomplishments.
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