Stop Greenhouse Gases! Stop Using Biofuel!
The true believers have demanded that we stop burning petroleum-based fuel and switch at once to biofuel. This, they told us, would save the planet. There is, however, one teensy, little problem:
Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent and 50 per cent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels. The concerns were raised over the levels of emissions of nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Scientists found that the use of biofuels released twice as much as nitrous oxide as previously realised. The research team found that 3 to 5 per cent of the nitrogen in fertiliser was converted and emitted. In contrast, the figure used by the International Panel on Climate Change, which assesses the extent and impact of man-made global warming, was 2 per cent. The findings illustrated the importance, the researchers said, of ensuring that measures designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions are assessed thoroughly before being hailed as a solution.
“One wants rational decisions rather than simply jumping on the bandwagon because superficially something appears to reduce emissions,” said Keith Smith, a professor at the University of Edinburgh and one of the researchers.
Why, no Dr. Smith. The true believers do not want rational decisions. They want what they want imposed by government fiat right the hell now. It is perfectly ok with them if you rape the planet, so long as you do it in the name of fighting global warming. Ask the orangutans. If you can find any left, that is. Pretty soon now the environmental disaster will truly be upon us. It won't be the one they are supposedly fighting, though. It will be the one they caused in the name of saving the planet. Rainforests gone, species eliminated, air fouled – all with the very best of intentions. The kicker to the story:
Dr Dave Reay, of the University of Edinburgh, used the findings to calculate that with the US Senate aiming to increase maize ethanol production sevenfold by 2022, greenhouse gas emissions from transport will rise by 6 per cent.
Do something right now. That something is more damaging than the status quo, but they're going to impose it anyway.
UPDATE: Incidentally, the true believers (and their sockpuppets!) might want to take a look at the Nobel Prize of one of the authors of the paper in question before they try to explain why they are right and Dr. Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Prize winner, is all screwed up. (Here's the paper.) Just saying. Others: Don Surber, Sister Toldjah, The Strata-Sphere, Small Dead Animals, Waste of my Oxygen, Tim Worstall,
Energy, Environment | Gaius September 22, 2007
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By terrence, September 22, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
Feelings, it is all about feelings. The eco-Nazis really are afraid the sky is falling, and it does not matter whether it is or not; they are AFRAID it is. It does not matter if they believe in manmade global warming or if they are trying to “smash capitalism†– either position counts as “the sky is fallingâ€. They have to, they MUST, do something, anything, to prevent the sky from falling
If they do not DO something, they will be left with their fear, and anything is better than that, even destroying the planet. They also want to dictate what is done, and when it is done (soon, very soon). Results do not matter. At one of the recent “rock concerts to save the planet, or Africa, or whateverâ€, someone said, “We have to do something; even if it does not workâ€.
Yes, I think they are deranged. That means we cannot reason with them – they do not care about logic, science or evidence. Ridicule might work against them; but they can be violent, so care must be taken.