Oh for crying out loud.
I bet we aren’t overly shocked by this, are we?
Rapeseed and maize (ed. corn) 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.
What, you mean that the “solution” to the problem is far worse than the original problem. I think I’ve heard this record before:
Some of the replacement chemicals whose use has grown because of the Montreal treaty — hydrochloroflourocarbons, or HCFCs, and their byproducts, hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs — decompose faster than CFCs because they contain hydrogen.
But, like CFCs, they are considered potent greenhouse gases that harm the climate — up to 10,000 times worse than carbon dioxide emissions.
Yes. It has happened before. The replacement for CFC’s in refrigerators, air conditioning, etc were replaced with chemicals that are 10,000 times worse. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, indeed.
Add to this that the Kyoto treaty actually rewards countries that cut down forests.
“The countries that haven’t really been the target of deforestation have nothing to sell because they haven’t deforested anything,” says Gustavo Fonseca, one of the study’s authors. “So that creates a perverse incentive for them to actually start deforesting, so that in the future, they might be allowed to actually cap-and-trade, as they call it: you put a cap on your deforestation and you trade that piece that hasn’t been deforested.”
And you have to wonder. Is the environmental movement trying to kill us all?
With friends like this; the earth doesn’t need enemies.
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