Posted on 12/30/2017 10:13:57 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Policies aimed at limiting climate change by boosting the burning of biomass contain critical flaws that could actually damage attempts to avert dangerous levels of global warming in the future. That is the stark view of one of Britains chief climate experts, Professor John Beddington, who has warned that relying on the cutting down and burning of trees as a replacement for the use of fossil fuels could rebound dangerously.
Beddington, a former UK government chief scientific adviser, said there was now a real risk that increasing wood-burning in order to help European countries, including Britain, reach renewable energy targets could turn out to be misguided. These policies may even lead to a situation whereby global emissions [of carbon dioxide] accelerate, he states in a blog on Carbon Brief, the UK-based website that covers climate and energy issues. He says wind and solar projects should dominate programmes to boost renewable energy generation in Europe.
Beddington, whose views are backed by several other eminent climate experts, said the burning of biomass wood or other renewable organic materials had the benefit of replacing fossil fuels, whose combustion raises carbon levels in the atmosphere, a process that's now warming the planet dangerously.
Biomass absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then releases it in a relatively brief life-cycle which should, theoretically, have a restricted long-term impact on the atmosphere. As a result, giant power stations, including Britains Drax generators, are increasingly abandoning gas or coal as power sources and are instead turning to the burning of wood, usually in the form of pellets imported from other countries such as the United States and Canada.
But burning wood to produce electricity is a relatively inefficient process. In generating exactly the same amount of electricity, wood will release four times as much carbon
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Soon Planned Parenthood will burn aborted babies ...
How many trees could be saved if the paper wasn’t being used to print this crap?
How many trees could be saved if fuels (of any type) weren’t being used to transport these ninnies to conferences in nice hotels around the globe?
How many trees could be saved if the electrons weren’t needed to digitally display, transfer, and record their bullsh!t reports about how Western man is killing the planet?
Only that which cannot be profited from otherwise.
It’s like pig, selling everything from the heel to the squeal.
I agree - let’s burn their grant money instead for heat (before they burn through it).
These "climate experts" really are fools and idiots. Maybe they should replace fossil fuels with biomass by setting themselves on fire. The rest of us would sleep better.
There are no “climate experts” or “climate change scientists”.
False words with no meaning.
Just remember this fact. Global Warming science is not to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Global Warming science is for champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
Lets burn the scientists. I am so tired of these lying climate change schemers. They were caught altering data and conspiring to cover it up. Why they have any credibility from anyone - yeah I know this is all the socialist left press has to work with.
Are there pellet burning steam ships taking these pellets to the UK? If not, they are still not carbon neutral.
I burn tires on earph day.
Happy Earth Day!
What is in a great source of energy. But in some cases it does the job.
Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life!
Agree. These so called experts are as useless to business as an idiot with a black studies degree or a community organizer.
I give up. What?
Al Gore made big money by spreading global warming hotair.
I'm happy to report that our supply of electrons is illimitable.
I remember hippy vans in the 1970s having bumper stickers that said “Split Wood Not Atoms”
I had a VW Bus that had that sticker. Fond memories.
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