tickleandrose wrote on Mar 20
th, 2017 at 4:24pm:
Renewable technology have to start somewhere.
Renewable technology has been around since the 19th century.
tickleandrose wrote on Mar 20
th, 2017 at 4:24pm:
ranted we have CO2 level like this before on Earth, but this time its different. The rate of increase is alot higher, and we are messing with deforestation
Perhaps you can show a graph where it was similar to now, but the current rate is a lot higher.
tickleandrose wrote on Mar 20
th, 2017 at 4:24pm:
We need to do the right thing. Instead of subsidizing this outdated form of energy generation, invest and give incentives to divest into renewable. The race is on, who ever succeed in the renewable energy sector is going to be the next superpower.
So we should subsidise renewables that don't have the same thermal efficiency as coal, because it might be harmful, or not.
"Yet moves by governments around the world to designate wood as a carbon-neutral fuel—making it eligible for beneficial treatment under tax, trade, and environmental regulations—have spurred fierce debate. Critics argue that accounting for carbon recycling is far more complex than it seems. They say favoring wood could actually boost carbon emissions, not curb them, for many decades, and that wind and solar energy—emissions-free from the start—are a better bet for the climate. Some scientists also worry that policies promoting wood fuels could unleash a global logging boom that trashes forest biodiversity in the name of climate protection.
"It basically tells the Congo and Indonesia and every other forested country in the world: ‘If you cut down your forests and use them for energy, not only is that not bad, it's good,’" says Tim Searchinger, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., who has studied the carbon impacts of wood energy."
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/wood-green-source-energy-scientists-are-d...