Forests no longer allies in climate-change fight

Toronto Star ^ | Apr 04, 2007 | Allan Woods

[jsh3180]

I think I'll short lumber futures today, obviously we're going to have to cut down all the trees, thereby causing a glut on the market.

[jsh3180]

ping

[Fierce Allegiance]

Someone else agrees carbon credits are about the dumbest thing going.

[gotribe]

Must kill the carbon units.

[johniegrad]

The world has gone insane.

[rickylc]

I worked under an NSF grant studying GW problems @ U of M biostation for two years. There was a researcher there doing experiments on forests as carbon sinks, of course, going in on the premises they would be carbon sinks. You should have seen the squirming and backtracking and making up of false reasons when it turned out forests were net carbon sources.

The discussion section of that paper was sheer fiction because they were trying to make up reasons why their results didn’t match their forgone conclusion, ya don’t want that grant money drying up ya know!

[chasio649]

The world has gone insane.

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No..you are seeing the global warming issue being used as a tool for globalism and one world government...i used to think that was tinfoil hat stuff just a couple of years ago...not so kooky now...imo.

[EBH]

This is one of the most convuluted pieces of reasoning I’ve read in a long time.

First we were to plant trees to offset carbon...

Second we learned that trees actually raise the temperature

Now we have to count them as emitters of CO2, not carbon sinks

And lastly then there is this:

Is this a Freudian Slip? I thought kyoto was to deal with ANTHROPOGENIC emissions, not natural phenome! The author works real hard to make global warming ‘the cause’ for the beetle infestation, when it is a natural phenome resulting not from global warming, but lack of forest diversity and lack of natural predation of the beetle.

“The problem is that ultimately we’re going to have to include our forests because forests and ecosystems can be bigger emitters (of greenhouse gas) than industry,” said Brinkman.

[Beowulf]

This is nuts.

[listenhillary]

Cutting down forests is good for the planet. That'll tie the environmentalilsts heads in a knot.

[listenhillary]

=environmentalists.

[dirtbiker]

Cutting down forests is good for the planet. That'll tie the environmentalilsts heads in a knot.

Not a lot of MENTAL in the environMENTAList movement....

[saganite]

We’re in Bizarro world, through the looking glass, on another planet etc. etc.

[CalvaryJohn]

These people are jut too damn funny.

[rdax]

We need to add volcanoes into the equation, too.

Or plug them somehow.

And add underground coal fires.

Or put them out.

[browardchad]

Cutting down forests is good for the planet. That'll tie the environmentalilsts heads in a knot.

And the resulting soil erosion is a good thing, of course -- just look at the paradise known as Haiti.

[Joe Miner]

"The problem is that ultimately we're going to have to include our forests because forests and ecosystems can be bigger emitters (of greenhouse gas) than industry," said Brinkman.

Didn't they ridicule President Reagan when he said this?

[sgtbono2002]

The whole thing is farcical,except while laughing we are getting ready to pay out actual money for this scheme being figured out by educated idiots.

[listenhillary]

Seem to remember something about that. No time this morning to research.

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