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Burning wood for power is ‘misguided’ say climate experts
The Guardian ^ | Dec 31, 2017 | Robin McKie

Posted on 12/30/2017 10:13:57 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

Policies aimed at limiting climate change by boosting the burning of biomass contain critical flaws that could actually damage attempts to avert dangerous levels of global warming in the future. That is the stark view of one of Britain’s chief climate experts, Professor John Beddington, who has warned that relying on the cutting down and burning of trees as a replacement for the use of fossil fuels could rebound dangerously.

Beddington, a former UK government chief scientific adviser, said there was now a real risk that increasing wood-burning in order to help European countries, including Britain, reach renewable energy targets could turn out to be misguided. “These policies may even lead to a situation whereby global emissions [of carbon dioxide] accelerate,” he states in a blog on Carbon Brief, the UK-based website that covers climate and energy issues. He says wind and solar projects should dominate programmes to boost renewable energy generation in Europe.

Beddington, whose views are backed by several other eminent climate experts, said the burning of biomass – wood or other renewable organic materials – had the benefit of replacing fossil fuels, whose combustion raises carbon levels in the atmosphere, a process that's now warming the planet dangerously.

Biomass absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then releases it in a relatively brief life-cycle which should, theoretically, have a restricted long-term impact on the atmosphere. As a result, giant power stations, including Britain’s Drax generators, are increasingly abandoning gas or coal as power sources and are instead turning to the burning of wood, usually in the form of pellets imported from other countries such as the United States and Canada.

But burning wood to produce electricity is a relatively inefficient process. In generating exactly the same amount of electricity, wood will release four times as much carbon

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KEYWORDS: agenda21; chatforum; climatechangehoax; globalwarminghoax; notnews
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Think how much energy we could produce by burning these idiotic dissertations from climate change scientists. These are the people Hillary and Obama were using as an excuse to hamstring our economy?
1 posted on 12/30/2017 10:13:57 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Soon Planned Parenthood will burn aborted babies ...


2 posted on 12/30/2017 10:16:18 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

How many trees could be saved if the paper wasn’t being used to print this crap?

How many trees could be saved if fuels (of any type) weren’t being used to transport these ninnies to conferences in nice hotels around the globe?

How many trees could be saved if the electrons weren’t needed to digitally display, transfer, and record their bullsh!t reports about how Western man is killing the planet?


3 posted on 12/30/2017 10:17:11 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: JudgemAll

Only that which cannot be profited from otherwise.

It’s like pig, selling everything from the heel to the squeal.


4 posted on 12/30/2017 10:17:54 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I agree - let’s burn their grant money instead for heat (before they burn through it).


5 posted on 12/30/2017 10:19:17 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
“Replacing fossil fuels with biomass energy seems like a good idea, both nationally and at the global scale. But such policies haven’t been properly thought through and risk making matters worse, not better.

These "climate experts" really are fools and idiots. Maybe they should replace fossil fuels with biomass by setting themselves on fire. The rest of us would sleep better.

6 posted on 12/30/2017 10:22:02 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

There are no “climate experts” or “climate change scientists”.

False words with no meaning.


7 posted on 12/30/2017 10:33:52 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Just remember this fact. Global Warming science is not to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Global Warming science is for champagne wishes and caviar dreams.


8 posted on 12/30/2017 10:34:54 PM PST by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Lets burn the scientists. I am so tired of these lying climate change schemers. They were caught altering data and conspiring to cover it up. Why they have any credibility from anyone - yeah I know this is all the socialist left press has to work with.


9 posted on 12/30/2017 10:35:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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...turning to the burning of wood, usually in the form of pellets imported from other countries such as the United States and Canada.

Are there pellet burning steam ships taking these pellets to the UK? If not, they are still not carbon neutral.

10 posted on 12/30/2017 10:36:58 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I burn tires on earph day.


11 posted on 12/30/2017 10:47:38 PM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Trees grow back.

Happy Earth Day!


12 posted on 12/30/2017 10:57:04 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

What is in a great source of energy. But in some cases it does the job.


13 posted on 12/30/2017 10:58:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: roadcat

Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life!


14 posted on 12/30/2017 11:01:05 PM PST by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfef)
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To: chris37

Agree. These so called experts are as useless to business as an idiot with a black studies degree or a community organizer.


15 posted on 12/30/2017 11:01:20 PM PST by Lumper20 ( "No NFL punk has a leg wound from combat-get off your knee or leave America,")
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What is in a great source of energy.

I give up. What?

16 posted on 12/30/2017 11:03:24 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Al Gore made big money by spreading global warming hotair.


17 posted on 12/30/2017 11:09:53 PM PST by granada
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How many trees could be saved if the electrons weren’t needed to digitally display, transfer, and record their bullsh!t reports about how Western man is killing the planet?

I'm happy to report that our supply of electrons is illimitable.

18 posted on 12/30/2017 11:11:09 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I remember hippy vans in the 1970s having bumper stickers that said “Split Wood Not Atoms”


19 posted on 12/30/2017 11:11:39 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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To: The Great RJ

I had a VW Bus that had that sticker. Fond memories.


20 posted on 12/30/2017 11:48:44 PM PST by upchuck (President Trump is great because he actually runs something other than his mouth!)
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