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Yale’s independent account explains that the counterfactual of fertilizer acidity changes liming’s long-term carbon balance to net removal. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 18782

Source: Adding limestone to Mississippi River Basin farmlands acts as a major carbon sink, study finds · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:1e7842ba5a567b5ae3f4b42debf4c68abc25ef2e24d420de3abdd33f37deeb6e

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A key advance of the new study is to account for what would have happened without lime. Even in the absence of liming, acidity generated by the use of fertilizer — and incidences of non-related air pollution — would still cause chemical reactions with soil and water that result in the release of CO2. When lime is evaluated against this more complex scenario, the study finds that it results in the long term in net carbon removal.

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