Doom and gloom! Hard to maintain a sense of humor in the face of that figure.  It would take 7 million square miles of prairie grass to sequester all that!  Contrary to my optimistic estimates.

But a prairie national park and windfarm could still do the job.  If plugin hybrid drivetrains took over transportation energy and conservation in the form of geothermal heat pump heating/cooling took over from standard heating and air conditioning. 

Another promising source of GHG reversal is manure, sewage, garbage,and farm waste biogas digestion.  It would prevent the massive amount of natural gas released by nitrogen runnoff into wetlands, rivers, and lakes.  By both directly preventing the runoff and also providing organic fertilizer for farming.  This would stop fossil fuel fertilizer runoff.

This whole comprehensive plan is a very tall order though.  Political will to do this just does not exist at this time.  I fear that only a series of natural disasters, like huge icecap melting and/or several Katrina sized hurricanes in one hurricane season would galvanize the mass media and the public into forcing politicians to actually agree to a comprehensive plan.

Right now scientists are afraid themselves.  Afraid to even connect more severe storms and catastrophic ice melting with global climate change.  It could very well kill their careers if they come out and tell the truth.  The sad state of the IPCC report tells the tale.  Intimidation and censorship have us all waiting another two years for the next report to verify what we already know.

Meanwhile the ice proceeds to melt at an exponentially increasing rate.  And subsidies keep on going to fossil fuel, nuclear power, and fuel farming.  With huge kickbacks to political parties to keep the status quo cash flow going.

Only two areas provide very slight hope. 

First:  Wind power has been given the green light from The Audobon Society (as far as danger to birds) and a recent windfarm study confirms that wind could provide most of our baseload power without a lot of expensive storage or backup power plants.

Second:  there appears to be a race heating up between many automakers to produce plugin hybrid vehicles. 

These provide very little hope though since the resistance to actual capital for mass production for these efforts is very strong.  The really large investment funds and banks that hold  very large stakes in the status quo energy systems, fossil fuel, nuclear, and now fuel farming see only financial disaster in any energy revolution.

They don't see the much larger financial disaster coming from massive global climate disaster.  Bottomline corporate group think only considers the upcoming quarterly profits. So it goes.  It really is a hopeless fight.

But hopeless causes are the only ones worth fightinmg for.