Australia wildfires release tens of millions of tons of carbon

[Barrett808]

Australia wildfires release tens of millions of tons of carbon
by Asa Wahlquist

VICTORIA'S bushfires have released a massive amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere - almost equal to Australia's industrial emission for an entire year.

Mark Adams, from the University of Sydney, said the emissions from bushfires were far beyond what could be contained through carbon capture and needed to be addressed in the next international agreement.

"Once you are starting to burn millions of hectares of eucalypt forest, then you are putting into the atmosphere very large amounts of carbon. That is far, far more than we're ever going to be able to sequester from planting trees or promoting carbon capture," Professor Adams said.

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[NNadir]

1. A runaway biofuels melt down?

I wonder how many people here are going to worry about the carcinogenic waste?

[Barrett808]

2. Ugh, that hadn't even occurred to me.

:(

[NNadir]

3. For just about every compound on the planet having a carbon-carbon bond

the production of carcinogens is involved.

If one considers formaldehyde a carcinogen - the oxidation of all carbon compounds produces carcinogens.

Unremarked entirely by the "biofuels will save us" crowd is the fact that biofuels are widely used on this planet and that they do, in fact, release carcinogens, but the "renewables will save us" cults couldn't care less.

Forest fires are carcinogenic.

But so is the wonderful often worshipped biofuels used in support of the car CULTure worldwide.

The Netherlands is just ONE country that intends to use Brazilian ethanol to fuel it's "renewables standards portfolio" for its car CULTure.

Unremarked by car CULTure apologist here - which generally includes most, if not ALL anti-nuke yuppies who write here - is the cost to poor people of their CULT behavior.

I wrote about it on another website when I wrote a diary called: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/16/105448/03">Those Happy Sugarcane Workers In Brazil: The Car Culture and Urinary Carcinogens.

It turns out that the "wonderful" renewables portfolio standards of European countries involve slash and burn agriculture. The biofuels advocates couldn't care less, since the people who will actually die for their religion are all poor people.

You can't be an anti-nuke if you give a rat's ass about poor people. However, you can muse loudly about your solar pool light.