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Don H3 wrote:

On Oct 31, 6:00 am, Billy wrote:
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:



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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1029172809.htm

"The Myth of Nitrogen Fertilization for Soil Carbon Sequestration"
is published in the November/December 2007 issue of the Journal of
Environmental Quality.

Interesting. This is somewhat parallel to the view that much
superphosphate
goes to waste as it is not necessarily useful for all the situations whee
it
is used.

I wonder why they authors do not advance a mechanism for why excesive
use of
nitrogenous fertiliser depletes organic carbon in soils.

David

My guess would be that the chemical fertilizers kill the microbial life
and that rain water and watering flush the nutrients away.
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Billy

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
- Bob Marley

This may be in the same vein as the Reagan
(Governator of California, then President of US)
administration asserting that "trees" were
responsible for "air pollution".
I don't recall all the wherefores and whereasses,
but the argument definitely mentioned "Oxygen"
as one of the culprits ... Probably because
without it nitrous oxide, nitrogen dioxide, the
various sulfur oxides, and even ozone, cannot
form.
Duh.
Neither can politicians.

No, I won't have it. Governor Ray-gun (of "taxes should hurt", but
didn't pay any, and Star Wars Defense [read boondoggle] fame) isn't the
Governator (Grop-pen-nator, whatever). That honor falls to Ah-nold, a
putative Republican, but with real "wacko" Republicans as contrast, it
is hard to tell.
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Billy

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
- Bob Marley