Genetically Altering Trees To Sequester More Carbon

An anonymous reader writes "Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year and so help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience. The study, by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, outlines a variety of strategies (PDF) for augmenting the processes that plants use to sequester carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into long-lived forms of carbon, first in vegetation and ultimately in soil."

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Re:Subjective perspective exaggerated

[kurzweilfreak]

Well, we've only been changing our environment to suit our own behavior since the first caveman started chipping rocks to make the first primitive tools. We call that "technology". If you'd like to go back to before that, I believe you're quite welcome to. But don't half-ass it, go all the way with it, k?