On Apr 6, 8:21 pm, jerry <electric...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 5:30 pm, JSM <ekrub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Biofuel Farming Looks to Be an Environmental Disaster
> > Growing corn for ethanol may increase greenhouse gases for over a
> > century.
> > Discover magazine February, Better Planet Special Issue, snippett
> > by Jennifer Barone and Amber Fields
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> > THE STUDIES "Land Clearing and the Carbon Biofuel Debt" by Joseph
> > Fargione et al., and "Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases
> > Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions From Land Use Change" by Timothy
> > Searchinger et al., both published in the February 7, 2008, issue of
> > Science.
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> > THE QUESTION Will switching from fossil fuels to biofuels really
> > reduce greenhouse gases? We take a close look at two big,
> > controversial studies that examine carbon emissions from the
> > ecosystems torn down to produce biofuels.
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> > THE METHODS Throughout the Amazonian rain forest and the savanna of
> > Brazil, enormous swaths of land are being converted to farms for
> > growing soybeans and sugarcane--all for use in creating biofuels. The
> > tropical rain forest and peatland of Indonesia and Malaysia and the
> > grasslands of the United States are also being converted to biofuel
> > crops. It is a disturbing trend, says Joseph Fargione, regional
> > science director at the Nature Conservancy, who conducted the first of
> > the two studies examined here. With his colleagues Fargione took a
> > close look at how the areas being transformed into farmland have acted
> > as carbon dioxide storage systems. Trees, grass, and other flora take
> > in the gas, Fargione says, incor****ating the carbon into their
> > structures. But when the land is converted for agriculture, the plants
> > are cut down, burned, or processed, and the stored carbon is
> > eventually released back into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.
> > Using numbers from nearly 50 previous studies, Fargione's team
> > calculated the amount of carbon stored in these landscapes and the up-
> > front carbon cost for each acre of land converted to produce biofuels.
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> For once I agree with you. Also, my son in law is a dairy farmer in
> New York that tells me they can't get fertilizer. He says the word is
> China has bought up all the US fertilizer and there is not enough for
> US farmers. Could this be the beginning of the great meltdown?
> Everything seems to be going haywire at once. The bottom line is
> there are too many people on this planet and it is time for the
> Malthusian Principle to kick in. That means some form of control has
> to happen such as mass starvation, a global epidemic, a global war, or
> some catastrophic event to curb the over population. There are too
> many people on this planet for all of them to have the same standard
> of living as we have in the USA, and that is a fact. The Internet and
> global communications have educated the m***** so they are no longer
> happy living in the bottom third of humanity. They are not going to
> take it any longer. Something has got to give
It is a fact that they (Chiniese) have targeted the defense industry
for buyouts. Congress is really worried about it [sic] they have been
working on the wording of another payraise for months now.
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