Biofuels not carbon neutral and leads to deforestation
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Deforestation in IndonesiaPosted by: RossErdmann
I wonder if the Obama Adminstration will go after those at the peer-reviewed journal Science with the same fervor that it goes after Fox News? The article in question calls into question a "critical accounting error" in the way that carbon emisions are calculated worldwide. The finding is that biofuels release as much, if not more, greenhouse gas per unit of energy then fossil fuels.
The article also reports another finding and cites a study that the majority of the world's forests will be gone by 2050 due to deforestation. This is due to the fact that biofuals are generally grown in developing nations where emissions aren't capped. This means that cap-and-trade is not only self-defeating but it also risks creating a real ecological crises.
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- Submitted By: RossErdmann | 27 days agoBut the question is, Are biofuels really green? A pair of new studies in the Oct. 22 issue of Science damningly demonstrate that the answer is no, at least not the way we currently create and use them. In the first study, a team of researchers led ...
- Submitted By: RossErdmann | 27 days agoDonning FDR's cape, Eisenhower's stripes and JFK's boat shoes, President Obama observed in Florida on Tuesday that his "clean energy economy" will require "mobilization" on the order of fighting World War II, building the interstate highway system ...
- Blog Source: africanagriculture.blogspot.comThat's where the accounting error crops up: we should assess the carbon lost in deforestation when we measure the greenness of biofuels, but that's not how it works under Kyoto, which simply exempts all CO2 emissions that come from using biofuels. ...
- Blog Source: www.energyrefuge.comThe other study highlights that the United Nations had overestimated carbon savings from biofuels and biomass, and the mistake was echoed by the European Union's cap and trade law. The UN simply ignored the impact of deforestation and ...
- Blog Source: blog.enterpriseitplanet.comUnder current emissions reducing schemes, including the Kyoto Protocol, the ETS, and the proposed carbon cap and trade in the US, all biofuels are exempt from carbon counting. The rationale is that being plant based, the biofuels ...
- Blog Source: www.civilianism.com“In the near-term I think, irrespective of how you go about the cellulosic biofuels program, you're going to have greenhouse gas emissions exacerbating the climate change problem,” said lead author, Jerry Melillo, from the U.S. Marine
- Blog Source: ww4report.comhe scientific community finally acknowledges that "biofuels" fuel deforestation—and thereby result in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions. ... The authors argue that existing and proposed regulations, such as the so-called U.S. cap and trade
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