A new global warming woe

The warmer soil gets, the more carbon it releases into the atmosphere. as one of just three preferred recipients of Katrina relief contributions.

A study in the journal Nature looked at the carbon content of soil in England and Wales from 1978-2003 and found that it fell steadily, with some 13 million tonnes of carbon released from British soil each year.

And, unlike George Wingnut Bush, British environmental scientists know just how serious this is:

“Our findings suggest the soil part of the equation is scarier than we had thought,” Professor Guy Kirk, of Cranfield University, told journalists at a science conference in Dublin. “The consequence is that there is more urgency about doing something.”

Well, maybe you have more urgency, professor, but somehow I doubt the folks on Pennsylvania Avenue do.