Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/11/2008 3:43:13 AM PST by angkor
Most prior studies have found that substituting biofuels for gasoline will reduce greenhouse gases because biofuels sequester carbon through the growth of the feedstock. These analyses have failed to count the carbon emissions that occur as farmers worldwide respond to higher prices and convert forest and grassland to new cropland to replace the grain (or cropland) diverted to biofuels. Using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land use change, we found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years. Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%. This result raises concerns about large biofuel mandates and highlights the value of using waste products.
I hear the perpetual motion machine has a zero carbon footprint.
Albore and his myrmidons will have a ball IGNORING this one.
Those silly scientists...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. The Great Oz Gore has spoken.
It’ll be tough for Dr. Al to ignore the sources (not to mention that it’s in Science Mag):
1 Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute.
2 Agricultural Conservation Economics, Laurel, MD, USA.
3 Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.
4 Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
You dare to bring real science into the debate about the religion of anthropogenic global warming? How dare you sir? How dare you? You know that our great Grand Poobah Al Gore has strictly forbidden the use of science in our religion...
Increase In Greenhouse Gases IS Really a Decrease In Greenhouse Gases Because Biofuel Proponents Mean Well! - ROTFWL
Damned if we do and damned if we don’t! I guess we’re just damned then...
>>>Grand Poobah Al Gore has strictly forbidden the use of science in our religion...
Take heart, the study doesn’t seem to deny global warming or its anthropogenic causes (in fact, if we eliminate those damned biofuels we’ll be better off).
Like I said, perpetual motion machines are the answer. Zero energy input and maximum energy output at 100 percent efficiency.
Why? He has been ignoring anything that even smacks of the truth for years. What makes you think it will be hard for him to ignore this time?
Well!!! I'm glad to see that someone has finally seen the light.
Then I've got me of them thangs.
But I can't do nothin' with it -- hits agin tha law to sell two-year-old Great Grand Daughters.
Good idea, but you know that “Big Oil” will never allow any perpetual motion machines to reach the people. I have it on good authority that they have spent $400 Trillion-Billion buying up all of the inventions ever made to free us from being their slaves.
As far as I’m concerned, green house gasses have never been a reason to consider biofuels.
Decreasing imports of petroleum from our enemies is a reason to consider them. Unfortunately, corn based biofuels does not decrease petroleum use enough to be a factor in our imports, thus it is a nonstarter.
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