Bushfires release huge carbon load (Envirowhack alert!)

The Australian ^ | February 13, 2009 | Asa Wahlquist

[ApplegateRanch]

PING!

[highlander_UW]

So what are the idiots going to do, come out in favor of fighting fires, or insisting that all Australians stay at home for a year and not run their economy?

[DoughtyOne]

What I’m wishing for is a big volcano to go off. These folks will all drop dead. Then we can get back to a sane world for the rest of us.

[ApplegateRanch]

Probably ban unlicensed fires. At least that sounds stupid enough to be their response.

[arista]

This story shows a basic misunderstanding of science. Whether the plants burn now or die and rot later, the amount of carbon released is the same.

[This_far]

“What I’m wishing for is a big volcano to go off.”

I was thinking about volcanoes too (along with forest fires).

Does Gaia have a carbon credit account with ALGORE?

[denydenydeny]

1) So, in other words, a nation can cut its carbon emissions to zero and it may not even matter at all.

2) The hundreds of people who died don't rate a mention in this piece.

3) "I think we are ignoring critical areas of research in favour of a technological solution. In this case, we need to better understand the natural cycles."

Ya think?

[ApplegateRanch]

A Professor is wrong about science? How can that be, when he also agrees with a Nobel, Oscar, and Grammy winning expert?

Oh, wait; it is BECAUSE he agrees with the guy who flunked his science classes!

Yeah, rapid combustion, or slow oxidation, it is still the same amount of carbon and oxygen involved.

In fact, this way, they probably came out ahead, since any methane that would have resulted from slow decay is eliminated.

[ApplegateRanch]

2) The hundreds of people who died don't rate a mention in this piece.

They don't call him a "dispassionate scientist" for nothing!

[Paladin2]

Uh, they make fire extinguishers that use CO2 to put out fires. Easy to clean up and turns out to be a fertilizer.

[preacher]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,25046286-25717,00.html

Excerpt:

Bizarrely, Mitchell Shire Council even made a ratepayer, Liam Sheahan, pay $100,000 in fines and costs for clearing his own fire break, which last weekend saved his Reedy Creek home from the fire storm which destroyed many houses around it.

And Nillumbik Shire, which contains Kinglake, last year warned ratepayers it had just fined two people for clearing trees from around their own homes, and another for simply picking up dead wood from the roadside.

Comment: Has the world gone nuts?

[wafflehouse]

[Royal Wulff]

Arctic species of ctenophore has invaded the Black Sea. See here.

[MathDoc]

Bushfires release huge carbon load

I'll be the first to say it. The BUSH fires are ... Bush's fault.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Claud]

This story shows a basic misunderstanding of science. Whether the plants burn now or die and rot later, the amount of carbon released is the same.

Don't confuse the poor dears with the chemistry of decomposition. :)

[SteelCurtain_SSN720]

That’s it, boys, time to ban lightning!

[UCFRoadWarrior]

EnviroNazis are extremely stupid people....

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t know. Al thinks they’re on a first name basis, but I’m not so sure Gaia knows who Al is.