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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2008-02-11

OOOPS! Green Science Wrong 

This is how I love my irony:

Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these “green” fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded. . . .

It does not matter if it is rain forest or scrubland that is cleared, the greenhouse gas contribution is significant. More important, they discovered that, taken globally, the production of almost all biofuels resulted, directly or indirectly, intentionally or not, in new lands being cleared, either for food or fuel.

“When you take this into account, most of the biofuel that people are using or planning to use would probably increase greenhouse gasses substantially,” said Timothy Searchinger, lead author of one of the studies and a researcher in environment and economics at Princeton University. “Previously there’s been an accounting error: land use change has been left out of prior analysis.”

I love that . . . "accounting error." What sort of accounting error do you suppose that involved? Like, maybe, the kind that involves hiding facts against interest?

What other sort of facts against interest do you suppose the environmental lobby is hiding?
Posted by: Michael / 2/11/2008 12:44:00 AM

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