The importance of soil carbon conservation in mitigating global climate change, an article written by Maggie Clune, derives from an extensive examination from a journal, Carbon Management, with information regarding soil-stored carbon gathered from the past 60 years from a group of researchers from the University of Sussex, University of Cambridge, and from Italy. Carbon emissions are one of the leading problems amongst many problematic issues involving mitigating global climate change. The author, Maggie Clune, uses intimidation to convey to the common reader by revealing many glaring facts such as land use contributes to rising atmospheric Carbon levels, that there is a lack of accurate data on carbon stocks throughout the globe, and policy makers that create policies to reduce emissions are ill informed.
Detailed knowledge about the amount of carbon in soils is important because the greenhouse gas CO2 is recurrently emitted when land use is changed, either through human or natural forces. Clune says,” Carbon emissions resulting from changes in land use and land cover are the second largest source of human-caused carbon emissions to the atmosphere after emissions from fossil fuel combustion.” The reader is instantly enlightened and possibly shocked to learn such a daunting fact regarding Carbon emissions and where it lies on the greenhouse gas emissions scale. Depending on whether or not the reader is from an agricultural profession or not, may have a heavy weight on how that individual may react to such a fact. A farmer or landscaper would feel much more of an impact from a truth such as this, because of their everyday involvement with the land, rather than a business man who may just occupy a computer desk throughout the da...
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...es, University of Cambridge. Dr. Tanner says, "If we're interested in conserving carbon, which we ought to be, we ought to conserve soils in temperate regions, and plants in tropical regions." Dr. Tanner comes to a hasty generalization when he says, “which we ought to be” because he assumes that everyone will be concerned or should want to be concerned. Another logical fallacy in which the author, Clune, included in her article is found in her quote, “The accuracy of distributional data for global soil organic carbon stocks is not consistent across the globe, however. While some regions, including China and Europe,” This can be considered another hasty generalization, because when Clune states that some regions including China and Europe she is broadening the details and not getting into specifics pertaining to all of the regions in which she may be referring too.
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