I realize it wasn't really fair of me to dismiss your request for links by pawning them off (laziness) on
Science, etc. So I dug around the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (which is kind enough to publish their full text articles on-line for those of us too cheap to buy a subscription to
Nature). So here are a few more general technical papers:
Hansen J, et al, 2000,
“Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario”, PNAS 97: 9875-9880
Friedlingstein P, et al, 2005,
“Contributions of past and present human generations to committed warming caused by carbon dioxide”, PNAS 102: 10832-10836
Hansen J, et al, 2006,
“Global temperature change”, PNAS 103: 14288-14293
And one that has a good discussion of CH
4, West JJ, et al, 2006,
“Global health benefits of mitigating ozone pollution with methane emission controls”, PNAS 103: 3988-3993
This is my opinion too The conservation group I work with is starting to move into the carbon sink planting field, but encorporating it into our reforesting mission. I guess also, it's like the old saying "if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well" - we may as well use it to address other environmental issues too.
Heh. Half of my job consists in convincing local farmers, etc, that they can increase yields by doing some basic agroforestry, silvopasture, or other reforestation processes using native species. I still haven't gotten anyone to bite on trying an analog forestry project yet - maybe someday.