West et al. (2023): Making mistakes in estimating the CO2 sequestration potential of UK croplands with enhanced weathering

Landis Jared West, Steven A. Banwart, Maria Val Martin, Euripides Kantzas, David J. Beerling IN: Applied Geochemistry 151, 105591, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2023.105591

Buckingham et al. (2022) report results from an alkaline soil ‘tubes on a roof’ ERW experiment with coarse basalt dust. The authors of this article highlight unfortunate fundamental errors in the execution of the experiment, reporting and interpretation of the results. These ERW results for a chalk soil, under dry conditions, are then extrapolated erroneously across millions of hectares of UK croplands to misrepresent UK cropland CO₂ removal potential by ERW.

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