The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles with Walter Jehne 

Probably the most important video to share of our generation

For the first time in a long time I actually think we can do this. Thank you.

Great talk by Walter Jehne. Lets get carbon back in our soils by creating the earth's soil carbon sponge. We all can do this by starting in our backyards. Thank you for sharing Walter Jehne.

the most important lecture I have seen to date this man should be advising the UN so much critical information here which we can run with. Allan Savory and his holistic grazing is exactly what this man is explaining but takes it much further than we realised Rewild the world and save the large predators than regulate the trophic cascades which the world ecosystems depend upon

The most accurate and complete explanation on: ' What actually is Climate Change? How is it happening? What are the solutions other than the CO2 factor? And yes, there is a solution!

Wow, living in the Central Valley as I do, I'm going to start making sure every inch of my front and back yards are covered with something growing. It ain't much, but it's what I can do. I'm already well on my way with this. Off to the nursery, and also off to our local regenerative farm to check it out and order some organic produce and grass-fed beef, pork, and lamb. :) This was a fascinating talk.

This is one of the most important talks I've seen on eco-restoration. At first the questions were driving me crazy because I just wanted to hear Walter speak - but then I realized - maybe it's because he is so out in front of us that everyone is trying to play catch up. So much to think about. Thanks for posting it.

every farmer should watch this

WALTER JEHNE!!!!! Thank you! That felt so clear, so inspiring and so edifying. I love what you are teaching. Thank you! Lets do this!

I can't believe this video has been up on RU-vid for over a year and has only had a few thousand viewings and fourteen (now fifteen) comments. This should have been spread around the internet like wildfire.

This all makes perfect sense. Basic chemistry and biology and physics. So, why isn't it being done? "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself." FDR

That bread and flover setup is pretty smart

Wonderful . Please connect this to Allen Savory and high density grazing and long rest periods to rejuvenate bare areas and even deserts. Imprint planting grazable plants on desert fringes could even help to kickstart the animal grazing cycle that is the key to building the sponge and saving the world

Fantastic content from Walter Jehne I will return to.

I'm not a spring chicken at 56 but it seems most of the audience is pretty long in the tooth. I do hope lots of young people can get enthusiastic and watch this on line.

Thanks Didi for the great introductory talk. Looking forward to reading your workbook.

One lesson I take away from all of this is that wore basically have to de-fence the whole of the earth and let ruminants run free again. Possibly with some predators mixed in, which can be us. So that they can re-establish grasslands and break that oxidation -> warming -> oxidation cycle.

Information starts at 15:00

For a paradigm shift. Very instructive, thanks for sharing.

Fantastic presentation.

This has to be the single most helpful talk to help us spread the word and the understanding. I'll be watching your other videos too, the better to be able to apply these insights. We are most fortunate to have you. A life well lived! 🌳🕊💚

Soil carbon sponge. Simple science. Give life to soil by bacterias.

Walter Jehne mesmerize me. ThX for upload !

Thanks for a great speech.

This is a really good explanation of how heath soils will safe the planet and make it more beautiful. It would be nice if someone could break it up into small clips so that we could share with people and not get them bored with a 2 hr scientific video

I planted a California native restoration 16 y are ago. 6 years ago I adopted some permaculture methods to create soil that could grow food. I did not know what I was doing, but nature took over and created a natural garden of Eden on my one acre lot in Northern San Diego county. Once again I do not know what I am doing but that is not stopping me from planting 1 gallon trees, 24 so far and 60 shrubs on 8000 square lot in the desert of Palmdale. I have put out a logg TV of straw, lbs of California native shrub and wildflower seeds as well as nitrogen fixers. I am hoping to have enough green mass grow that I need to borrow someone goat.

Dear politicians, Please watch this video. It’s not too hard to do. Then you will be able to know when you’re lying to us.

Compelling and clear.

Thank you Sr, you've shared so much knowledge in this lecture..thank you 🍻🍻

at 21 minutes-ish, when he's talking about W/m^2, a woman asks if there's a "time factor" and I wanted to point out - not that anyone will notice this - that the time factor is contained in the W unit. Watts, that is. Watts is 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3 in SI base units. The "s-3" means "per seconds cubed" and that's where the time comes in. What cubed time means I'll leave as an exercise for the reader 8)

Yet a whole bunch of more reasons to cover the soil and never do tillage.

Fantastic work. Brilliant tying together of systems and evidence. Can only hope this information is being understood at high levels in governments around the world. Bolsanaro, Trump - are you listening, are you paying attention? Thank you so much Mr Jehne.

Unfortunately, we also have arctic permafrost melting to release methane(CH4) 59:00 They are increasing the surface area so I think they are increasing the entropy. 1:20:00 Would factory-farmed cattle have a bit of an impact then? Not being put out to pasture.

From the theme (title) of many of lectures, "Soil Carbon Sponge" one could infer that atmospheric CO2 is the target, the culprit regarding global warming. After the listening to several of his lectures I get the opposite impression. Screwed up hydrological cycles are the problem and regenerating healthy soil using carbon from atmosphere is the solution. Walter if you are listening consider changing your speech title to "The soil solution to prevent climate catastrophe"

"I'm a soil microbiologist from Down Under." :)

Healthy pasture neutralizes 100x more methane than the cows grazing on it can produce andhealthy pasture can't exist without ruminants to graze it. The only thing that will save us from an extinction event is ruminants. Not the first timeI've heard that but the first time i heard about the methane part. Take that beyond burger. Spread the word!! Go buy Grass fed meat!

I am amazed on how easily and timid he explains how we literally can save the world and humanity from an enormous disaster. I don't know how he copes with this, it must be a burden.

Just Have a Think channel sent me here.

Excellent presentation! However I am still skeptical that the confluence of the World's Sixth Mass Extinction, incompetent and dangerous world "leadership", corporate greed, and any number of other existential threats (creating feedback loops on feedback loops) can be overcome . . but I will look into this for what I am might be able to do practically here in Central West NSW . .

May I please make a suggestion. Q. How many acres of corn are grown on a yearly cycle in the US alone? The desertification of countless miles square miles on a seasonal Cycle I feel is the biggest problem that needs to be reckoned with. The entire corn cycle and everything that revolves around and makes it possible is beyond ludicrous, obsolete, defunct, debunked & ready to be entirely rethunk.

Here in Brazil, We have Embrapa soils.

responding to 1:10:00-1:20:00 : forests produce a more continuous stream of water vapor than grasslands. not knocking the importance of large herbivores in managing and improving certain biomes, but if we're trying to stabilize climate we should probably look to increase overall vegetation cover, with proper pastured grazing as an important element, but not end-all solution. the bit i watched was informative but seems like wishful thinking, ill watch the rest before forming an opinion.

Since photooxidation of vapor happens in the air (as far as I understood), why are grassland useful since the vapor could as well just come from evaporation on the oceans?

hydroxyl radical en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical#Application_in_air_purification

A fascinating, detailed exposition with so much to think about. But I am confused about your solar insolence figure: you give it as 342 W/m^2 (minute 22.33) yet I understand it as 1,353 W/m^2 and about 1000 W/m^2 at the earth's surface on a clear day. You use this figure again at 1:35 min and at 1:40. Please could you clarify. Thanks

Gotten through about half so far... Excellent and important and geared towards the general public. Unfortunately, he do es some damage to his credibility by showing a lack of understanding of entropy and he incorrectly states that plants are the only organisms that are photosynthetic...Many bacterial species also perform photosynthesis.

Amazing. It exposes so much ignorance with such a simple solution

Me too.

Jehne accepts the shaky Climate assumption that CO2 initiates a bit of warming but THEN that causes more humidity, and THAT HUMIDITY increases the H2O Greenhouse effect. But then the healthy sponge soils INCREASES HUMIDITY that cools the land from the rain that elevated humidity triggers. Factually, nearly all the warming since 1988 has been from steadily decreasing low clouds. That fits perfectly with everything Jehne just told us. Steadily drying our croplands which accelerated the last century results in fewer clouds and that warm the globe. That is exactly what the cloud data over the last 4 decades tells us. Warming from DIRECT Solar heating (from fewer clouds) accounts perfectly for all of the global warming...& NOTHING TO DO WITH increasing atmospheric CO2. Only fixing Agriculture will cool the earth. Reducing CO2 won't.

at around 1:15:55 he mentions grasslands transpiration producing water vapor and "when sunlight hits water vapor it photo-oxidizes and produces hydroxyl ions (OH-), and hydrogen ions (HCO2-) that form bicarbonate ions. So you’ve got sunlight on water vapor photo-oxidizing the water vapor molecule into hydroxyl ions and bicarbonate ions and basically these hydroxyl ions - free radicals are enormously aggressively oxidative - and they will basically turn that Methane rapidly into CO2 and water (H2O). Now a healthy green pasture will produce about 100x the hydroxyl radical photooxidation than the herbivores grazing it has the potential to produce." Does anyone know where there is studies that show this to be true?!?! Specifically the part about the ions rapidly turning CH4 into CO2 and water. Help! :)

If I bought 200 acres of pasture near the Olympic Rain Forest, should I put cattle on it and mob graze it, or plant it with Doug Fir trees?

Don't underestimate ancient metallurgy technology. Maybe ancient metallurgy technology from soil carbon or charcoal iron or bog iron or turned dirt into iron ore.

Can we have the KEY POINTS? Not all this complex stuff for other scientists?

Why doesn´t she take the microphone?

Genial

@ 58:15 Reversing Entropy or Negentropy, nature tends to complexity!? We can rethink economics and instead of models dependent on scarcity embrace a new world of abundance.

I'm all about it. I am 50 now and don't want to waste any more time. I want to turn waste land, denuded landscapes into forest. I do wonder if melting permafrost will turn into living soil.

there's always one. where did the plantlife come from

Walter mentions in the video that man's agricultural practices have degraded the land over the past THOUSANDS of years. I would love to have a reference for that if somebody can share one please?

he said it again manage ,control . just leave things alone and quit trying to manage,control,

Don't forget peat fuel from soil.

We have natural environments, and we have farmland. Farmland is an artificial system where we grow our food. The natural environment is where we look for bio-diversity. Structuring the soils is a complex process. The industrialised landscape in eastern England, produces at least 3 crops a year, and for lettuce and similar we get 8 crops a year. Clearly farmland has to be structured in order to produce such vast volumes of food, in order to feed us. And before agriculture, I'm not sure soils were as well structured as they are today, as a result of human activity. While humans can ruin things, they can also improve eco habitats, too. A land covered in Ice or forest would not produce the bio-diversity we in the UK currently have ( if you don't count wolves and bears )

This question always wonders me as I see more videos on environmental conservation. Why there is always a lone crusader fighting for soil, water, environment conservation or even social causes? Where are all the govt aided universities and their highly educated and highly paid scientists and researchers? It feels so weird.

I don't think the 'bread' example is really necessary.

40:54

Thirty thousand billion? It's that an accident or does he mean thirty trillion?!

Using GMO technology can help by making forest and crops sequester more efficient. Also the certified organic movement does not help with the carbon sequestering. This results in less yield for each unit of fuel and more water used per unit of food. When I was in Soils classes and farming I was taught that OM in soil has a half life of 25 to 50 years. Fertilizing with good management add to removing C from the air. Corn makes 50 bu/ac every other year under no fertilizer while 225 continuous using modern practices. Most CH4 is coming from hydrates released in arctic regions.

it really needs some crowd effort to edit and make this message more simple to understand. We need the Cliff notes not this rambling mish-mash of good ideas.

IF THIS INFO CAN CHANGE THE WORLD THEN I SUGGEST BETTER SOUND. I HAVE OVER 200 ACRES I WANT TO FARM.. CANT HEAR A THING

Has anyone even read grazed and confused?

Overall this is very poor Mister Think and you are skating on the edge of being a coal/oil shill, not something that you've ever intended unless you've switched teams (they offer better hair treatments?). I just plodded through the whole 2 hours of talk by Walter Jehne who I think you are referring to. It's very slow & padding, arduous for me as I wait for something actually concrete to ponder in it. There might be some possibility of increased partial land cloud cover that could offset a bit of the warming, I can't dispute that because I haven't studied enough, the basic idea would be to reduce the rate at which precipitation on land makes its way back to the ocean. But Walter's calculations for all sorts of things are way off. His 2% is way low because (1) He forgot that Earth has oceans (2) He forgot that humans aren't doing soil management for 100% of land (3) He forgot that clouds warm at night (3) He forgot that clouds block the Sun's SWR that would otherwise be reflected from the surface (~15%) so he calculated as though Earth's land surface was all jet black (it isn't). As a result of this it would require >9,000,000 km**2 of additional cloud cover on Earth to switch the imbalance from the present +0.78 w/m**2 to -1.05 w/m**2 in order to cool Earth back to 1970 AD. I don't know how much >9,000,000 km**2 it needs because I don't know the night time cloud warming effect. If you know that then it could easily be factored in. Sure that's 2% of Earth's total surface but you can't do Walter's soil sponge farming on the oceans, sea & lakes because the cows would drown and the waves wash the soil off, so I think Walter meant only 2% of the 35,000,000 km**2 of the land cleared by humans that Walter states. As you see it's >9/35 = >26% of extra cloud cover over the humans' land bit due to the nice spongy soil, way more than 2%. He was very confused about WG1 climate science, about the physics, about the quantities. He got much wrong. Worst thing is that he hugely misrepresented the water vapour (H2O) versus carbon dioxide (CO2) so-called "greenhouse effect" with false numbers like "90%" water vapour and "40,000 ppm" water vapour which is all classic coal/oil shill disinformation. He constantly stressed how the (strongly implied stupid, incompetent, tunnel-visioned, blind) WG1 climate scientists "concentrate on CO2 while ignoring H2O" and he lied about the climate models, pretty much calling them useless but giving false information to support that. This is not good. It's possible that you are supporting and parroting an Australian coal shill with these 2 videos. I'm not absolutely certain though, he might just be another of those types who suffer from "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and is rather confused. Either way the things he says about CO2, climate scientists & climate models would have Charlie Koch & Crocodile CoalDee salivating & licking their lips. He clearly doesn't understand how the so-called "greenhouse effect" actually works. What do you think Mister Think, are you supporting an Australian coal shill with these 2 videos ?

your problem is you think you can control this, when you can't ,all about you controlling everything .

bottom line quit cutting/killing grass and trees let them grow.

Who decided that the CO² level 800 years ago was Earth's optimum? Remove the political hype from the faked disasters in the news ("never before", "worst in history", and all lies) and things seem quite manageable today. A similar question would be what would be the effect on the climate of our successfully re-greening all the deserts (not Antarctica) with grassland or forests? Even further, is there enough CO² in the atmosphere to green the deserts, because we still have to rely on the stoma being able to close quickly after getting a free-floating snack and not lose too much internally-stored water.

Australia do not have worms. Worms eat old plant mass elsewhere.

how about we remove human life from earth and you wont have to control this