[MCN] Another knife in coal's back?: BP chief urges "lower-carbon" fuels

[Lance Olsen]

Wall Street Journal - BP Boss Calls for Climate-Change Action at Oil Conference

LONDON-BP PLC Chief Executive Bob Dudley called on governments 
Wednesday to do more to encourage a shift to lower-carbon fuels, 
warning that the world is on course to see global temperatures rise 
to dangerous levels.

behind paywall at
http://www.wsj.com/articles/bp-boss-calls-for-climate-change-action-at-oil-conference-1455123900
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"Seventy percent of the world's remaining forests are within 1 
kilometer of a road," Lovejoy said. "Which is a measure of how 
advanced fragmentation is."

Deforestation could dry out the Amazon, but a warmer climate might do the same.

The length of the dry season here is expected to increase due to 
climate change, and in fact, that already seems to be happening in 
some Amazon regions. And this, in turn, could not only threaten 
regional hydrology but push a transition to less carbon-dense forests 
- in some cases even exacerbating the possibility of wildfires that 
could transform tropical forests into a different, savannah-like 
environment.

Thus, both continuing deforestation and a warming climate alike 
threaten the carbon storage, and the rain generation, of the vast 
Amazon system. It's not one menace - it's two that are closely 
intertwined.

Forests become part of the climate story

The forests section of the recent Paris climate agreement wasn't one 
of the most noted or debated sections. And it wasn't as strong as 
some would have liked. But the mere fact that it was there was a 
landmark, Lovejoy said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/11/the-solution-to-climate-change-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-cars-or-coal/

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"Up until the late 1950s, tillage (plowing) released more carbon 
dioxide into the atmosphere than all the burning of oil and coal in 
history."

" ...   not tilling the soil begins to build up the carbon content of 
the soil. You might call this 'carbon farming'."

"Obviously, these programs are currently not big money-makers for farmers."

"Energy agriculture - carbon farming" Don Hofstrand co-director AgMRC
Iowa State University
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/articles/hof/HofAug07.html


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