just dam !
The real truth of the nut case left is they are so entrenched in self loathing they long for the elimination of the human race.
"This is because large amounts of carbon tied up in trees and other plants are released when the reservoir is initially flooded and the plants rot."
Gee, how about letting them harvest the trees first ?
( As if those plants and such were never going to die and release their methane at some point anyway... )
Let's see... they deride atomic energy (why? I have no real clue, we all know what they SAY)...
Burning things is out of the question (though I believe it makes up something like 70% of our energy)
Now hydro-electric energy is dangerous.
Next thing you know they'll tell us wind power decapitates endagered owls, and claims against solar power will include overheating the area around the solar cells.
The only thing we'll be left with is riding bikes to charge batteries! I think at that time, however, I will be instead strapping these libs to the wires, and not a battery.
Omigod!! We are doomed!!
That evil Kelp (millions and millions of square miles of it!) in the ocean that grows and dies and decays and releases carbon dioxide and methane in the air...those billions of trees in the forests, those massive rivers like the Mississippi, the Amazon, those miles and miles of grain that the cattle eat and turn into methane - they are killing us and turning our planet into a tropical Hell!!
Oh Woe is me. Woe is me. We must drain all the rivers and lakes, destroy all the trees, stop all the grain and grass from growing, fill the oceans with Roundup...!!
We are doomed. (Unless mebbe we could all hold our breath for one minute out of every five to reduce the CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.)
said Philip Fearnside from Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon in Manaus
guess there are alot of dams in the amazon
Hydroelectric seems to kill more people (directly, anyway) than other forms of power production.
The left should just do the honorable thing and Hunter Thompson themselves. Since they hate life so much, then they should make a statement to prove it.
Yet-another-reason-for-more-nuclear-power-plants bump.
The enviro-nazis will control every aspect of your lives including how many beans you consume and how many craps you take and how many squares of paper you use on each wipe.
What we need is more windmills. Thousands of windmills.
When it comes to powering the globe and all it's inhabitants, I doubt there really is any clean way....just some that are less dirty than others.
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" -- but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the "naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race -- i.e., his own self hatred.
In the case of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women -- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly "natural."
Robert Heinlein
He is full of crap just how would this tripe compare to say Lake Powell's sand and rock??
Once you buy into the global warming and its Mankind's fault scam, you have to conclude that the world would be better off with out mankind. (Even camping and living in tents we burn fuel for cooking.)
I agree, dams and resevoirs contribute CO2 to the atmosphere. Not only filling the lake, but constructing the dam in the first place. There is no free lunch, but dams also contribute to water shortages and flood control, So on the whole maybe they are still valuable in the right circumstances. So are nuclear power plants.
And I will bet these nutball scientists are evolutionists to boot. 8^>
So, if rotting vegetation does this....we should clear cut all the tropical rain forests?