Friday, July 04, 2008

Bugger globes, fight fires

Bugger globes, fight fires | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Want to slash emissions? Simple: do more to stop bushfires. Forest and bushfire expert Professor Mark Adams explains:


Unfortunately again, all the trees planted or likely
to be planted in Victoria in the name of cleaning the atmosphere will
not replace the carbon lost in recent fires… Efforts to encourage
individuals to conserve energy and carbon - ‘we will save 40,000 tonnes
of greenhouse gas emissions’ (The Age January 9, 2007) - must be viewed
in the context that 2003 and 2006/7 fires have sent back to the
atmosphere of the order of a 100,000,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas
emissions...

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