STOP CLIMATE CHANGE?

STOP CLIMATE CHANGE?

You can protect the future for your grandchildren...
But only if you ACT NOW!

POLITICIANS CAN'T DO IT!
SCIENTISTS CAN'T DO IT!
ONLY YOU CAN!


"Uamby"
RMB 384 Uamby Rd
Goolma NSW 2852

Sunday 10.11am

Dear Friend,

I am just a farmer. I'm no scientist, but I do know about the weather. Something has gone seriously wrong. As I write, there is another bush fire out of control, just 30-odd kilometres to the north west of us. Yesterday the temperature gauge hit the low 40's - well into the 100s farenheidt. Today it's 22°C. We're suffering in the worst drought in 1000 years. The bores are running dry. And at Christmas we got a massive hailstorm. The weather seems to have lost its mind.

Tsunamis, cyclones, heat waves, wind storms... nothing's normal anymore. We're told the ice cap at the North Pole is melting so fast that experts are afraid the polar bears will drown. That's right, drown... Polar bears will drown as the Arctic Circle melts


What will happen to the rest of us? No one can tell. America - the world's biggest emitter of CO2 - refused to join the rest of the world in using the carbon credits system to cut back the CO2 pollution. Australia was the only other country to do so.

State governments, big companies, members of their own political parties... everyone is pleading with George W. Bush and John Howard to ACT NOW to save the future for our grandchildren. George Bush has another 2 years as President. The world can't wait that long. You can't wait. I can't wait. (Just now, my 4-year-old grandson Xavier came into the room asking for a lolly. It breaks my heart to think that I may not be there to help him when the worst happens. I have got to do something... now.)

That's why I thought of you and all the people like you who love children and worry about what will happen to them.

BUT WHAT CAN I DO?

YOU CAN DO A LOT:
1. You can talk to people about your worries to get them thinking about it.
2. You can call your MP and write to PM Howard.
3. You can neutralise the CO2 you release into the atmosphere when you use electricity or drive a car or buy CO2-heavy products.

But don't just buy any carbon credits. BUY SOIL CARBON CREDITS. They are the only carbon credits that can do something serious about the Climate Change problem in the time that we have left.

SOILS CAN SAVE THE WORLD!

In 2005, we were chosen as among the 10 most innovative farm families in the Central West of NSW and trained throughout the next 12 months in the POWER of SOILS. And we discovered that agricultural soils are the only way to remove the trillions of tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere and avert a global catastrophe in the short time we have left.

We formed a farmers' movement called the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming to recruit farmers to fight the battle against Climate Change. We were helped by many good people, and the Coalition is now 500 strong and growing. We paid our own way to America to meet the global warming experts there last October. We've met the experts here. They all agree with us. Only soils can save us. Forests can't do it in the time. (The world couldn't plant enough trees fast enough. Trees can't grow fast enough to do the job. And the cost of the planting is more than anyone is willing to pay.)

Agricultural soils are ready, willing and able. 60% of the earth's surface is used for grazing animals. Soil is already the biggest carbon "sink" we can control. All it would take is a change in the way farmers farm to start eating into the massive overload of CO2 in the air.


If we were able to increase soils carbon just 1% in only 10% of Australia's agricultural soils, we could 'sequester' or extract from the air 10 years' worth of our emissions. Do it 4 years in a row and that's 40 years' worth of emissions.


HOW CAN AUSSIE FARMERS FIGHT GREENHOUSE

Australian farmers can combat global warming by changing the way they farm. There is an entirely new way of farming called "CARBON FARMING" which absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. But farmers need to be taught about it and incentivised to change - by being offered carbon credits for the carbon they absorb.

HELP THE CARBON COALITION SPREAD THE WORD TO FARMERS

Speading the word about Carbon Farming: We spend many hours meeting with farmers

We are travelling all over the country teaching farmers about how to become Carbon Farmers - how to change the way they farm so that their soils will absorb more CO2. But they need to be given the carbon credits in the same way forest owners are. We have an order from the Chicago Climate Exchange for the first soil carbon credits. We need your help to get started.

The Carbon Coalition meets with the National Farmers Federation CEO David Crombie who supports our mission


STRIKE A BLOW AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE!This is your chance to buy the first Soil Carbon Credits ever sold in Australia. These Credits can be used to 'offset' the emissions you and your family make everytime you switch on a light or cook a meal or drive the car or fly in an aircraft.

They are not simply "Carbon Credits". Remember: most other carbon credits do not do anything about the massive overload of CO2 in the atmosphere that is causing global warming. They only prevent new emissions adding to it. SOIL can 'sequester' carbon - using plants to breathe in the CO2 during the day, separate the Carbon and the Oxygen which is released at night while the Carbon is trapped in the soil.

But more than that, SOIL Carbon Credits also preserve the environment by rewarding farmers for 'conservation farming'. Carbon Farming builds richer, more nourishing soils, that in turn provide the best environment for bugs and worms and insects, and these bring the native birds and the little native animals like Quolls, and more wallabies and kangaroos. And bountiful pasture so there is plenty of grass for them and the farmer's sheep and cattle.
CARBON FARMING: FLOURISHING HEALTHY GRASSY WOODLAND PASTURES

There is less erosion and less salination, less water lost to evaporation. More trees because they encourage soil carbon and they take up CO2 as well. Carbon Farmers cooperate with Nature. Carbon credits pay them to protect and defend the ecology while fighting Climate Change.
"EXTRACTIVE" FARMING IS A FORM OF MINING: HEAVILY ERODED AND DEGRADED FARMLAND




HOW DO WE MEASURE SOIL CARBON FOR CREDITS?
We don't use complicated models that only an actuary could understand. There is uncertainty in precisely how much carbon is sequestered by every technique. All models are based on agreed estimates and averages. Not ours.

The SOIL CARBON CREDIT is based on the following factors:

1. The history of soil management for the plot in question.
2. The history of soil management for the entire property.
3. The training record of the land manager.
4. The land management techniques used on the entire property.
5. The imputed increase in soil carbon in the plot in question over the period since the change in land management.
6. Membership of Carbon•Farmers™, a group of conservation land managers who are also actively working to restore the natural resource base.

NB. When the politicians and scientists finally catch on to the danger we are facing and the need for soil carbon credits, we will have a new system that accurately measures out the Carbon 'sequestered'. But we can't afford to wait for them. In the words of Professor Stuart Hill, UWS, "If you get tangled up in measurement you will sink into a quagmire and never achieve your goal."

YOU GET MORE THAN CO2 REDUCTION
You get more than carbon credits when you buy from Carbon•Farmers™. You help support the work of the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming which is promoting the benefits of soil carbon credits and teaching farmers about Carbon Farming. The Convenors Michael & Louisa Kiely, carry the word far and wide, from Cobar to Kingaroy to Gloucester and beyond. They speak at conferences and to the media. They meet with politicians and scientists to argue the case for soil carbon credits.





When you buy carbon credits from Carbon•Farmers™, you support the work of the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming. The money doesn't just go to reward smart merchant bankers who invest in plantation forests and other dubious projects..




HOW TO BUY SOIL CARBON CREDITS
Simply use the online payment system below. If you have questions, call Carbon•Farmers™ on (612) 6374 0329.