Hothouse Earth Extinction

Apprehensive about yet another theoretical solution? Rest assured. Hothouse Earth Extinction: Gigaton Carbon Dioxide Removal Now is unlike anything you’ve encountered before. It's packed with achievable steps and the unwavering support of influential global figures making real-world efforts toward monumental change. This isn't just a guide for students or science enthusiasts. This book creates a bridge between knowledge and action, motivating you to inspire others.  How close are the planet’s climate tipping points?
Right now, every moment of every day, we humans are reconfiguring Earth’s climate bit by bit. Hotter summers and wetter storms. Higher seas and fiercer wildfires. The steady, upward turn of the dial on a host of threats to our homes, our societies and the environment around us. We might also be changing the climate in an even bigger way.
For the past two decades, scientists have been raising alarms about great systems in the natural world that warming, caused by carbon emissions, might be pushing toward collapse. These systems are so vast that they can stay somewhat in balance even as temperatures rise. But only to a point. — Raymond Zhong and Mira Rojanasakul. 
Across 100,000 acres in the vast agricultural heartland of Australia, an unusual approach is taking root to slow down the wrecking ball of climate change.
Farmers are trying to tap the superpowers of tinysubterraneantendrilsof fungus to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and stash it underground.
It’s part of a big bet that entrepreneurs and investors around the world are making on whether dirt can clean up climate pollution. Why fungus? Because fungi act as nature’s carbon traders. As they sow their crops, farmers are adding a pulverized dust of fungal spores. The fungus latches on to the crop roots, takes carbon that is absorbed by the plants from the air and locks it away in subterranean storage in a form that may keep it underground for much longer than the natural carbon cycle.  

The author, Thomas Valone, Physicist, Licensed Professional Engineer, and retired Environmental Science instructor from Erie Community College. President, Integrity Research Institute, Beltsville, MD, USA. Author of over a dozen books and 100 articles Dr. Valone has lectured at numerous conferences throughout the world. Guest on History, Science, CNN, and A&E channels.