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Can anybody here play this game?

By | October 22, 2009, 1:46pm PDT

Summary: Kyoto Protocol miscalculated on deforestation and biofuel production. Big mistake.

This was the famous question once asked by clever author Jimmy Breslin of the pathetic New York Mets when they were a start-up. You know the answer when you ask it about the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Corps of Engineers in New Orleans or those Masters of the Universe and their financial creations that collapsed. Now you gotta ask the same question about some of the folks trying to manage global action on global warming. Can anybody here play this game?

Today comes word from a study published today in “Science” that advanced biofuels are a move in the wrong direction, that they will add to global carbon emissions and that all this is blamed on the current Kyoto Protocol.
Some polite news organizations are calling it an “accounting glitch”. Sorta like those glitches that caused all those quickly-defaulted mortgages, you mean?

The study claims cellulosic biofuels will actually increase carbon emissions when compared with continued use of gasoline over the next twenty years. That despite the billions of dollars for research and development, and the loads of political capital being expended on cellulosic biofuels, those made from wood or grass or other non-edible plants. The report goes on to say that the Kyoto Protocol and its encouragement of cellulosic biofuel could easily lead to even wider deforestation and spiralling upward of carbon emissions. Seems the Masters of the Atmosphere who put together the UN’s emission calculation system did not imagine cutting forests down to make ethanol, obviously an attractive business plan in many parts of the globe. Ooops.

And they did not “account” for the CO2 released when the resulting biofuel is burned. They decreed cut forests would count only as “land use emissions” and then did not include land use emissions in the calculations for overall global CO2 emissions from energy use. So if you chop down trees, plant sugar cane and make ethanol, you go zero bad marks for carbon emissions according to the current system. Sorta like the tax loopholes so popular in the U.S. or our millions of jobless folks who are not considered “unemployed.” It’s happening but we choose not to count it. So the global warming calculators were not calculating reality. Can anybody here play this game?

HERE’S LINK TO THE REPORT IN SCIENCE, AUTHORED BY EIGHT YANKS AND AN AUSTRIAN.

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And you wonder why no one here is surprised?
nhudd 23rd Oct 2009
The whole point of scientific peer review is to vet
out emotionally charged and politically driven claims.
Unfortunately, GW "science" has rushed to make the-
sky-is -falling claims off of assumptions off of
results off of "projected models" which contain only
slightly more hard science than a 1-900 astrologist.

Instead of waiting for peer reviewed confirmation or
critique, global policies have been passed, Billions
of dollars squandered and Billions of people
brainwashed for nothing tangible.

The same people who yell and scream when pharmaceutical companies want shorter review and
faster acceptance procedures do not want to apply the
same safeguards to their own zealotry.

This is only the beginning of a whole slew of scientific review "discoveries" that are bound to
occur over the next 10 years, now that there has been
time to test, evaluate and objectively respond to the
impulsive claims, policies and resultant actions of
the current global cult: Global Warming.

Harry, if you'd actually been listening to your respondents, you wouldn't be so surprised!

Nathan



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Socialist control over breathing...
Christian_<>< 22nd Oct 2009
When people are out of work because they cannot
afford to drive to work, use electricity I am
sure everyone is going to be in financial ruin
from lies and Oboma CZAR controlled fiasco.
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Hey Christian (right wing republican?)
Boxarox Updated - 22nd Oct 2009
The $50 million "bio diesel" plant they built in our home town THREE YEARS AGO was built during the capitalist hey-day of Bush. Corn grower subsidies for ethanol were championed by the same administration to benefit the those lucky folks in the corn belt states, who of course have been, and will continue to be all Republican. Our bio diesel plant operated
for 3 months and has been shuttered for over a year.
So, ya...blame Obama (sp?)

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help the trolls...
privatejarhead 22nd Oct 2009
...they need their medicine. don't feed, cure. =p
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RE: Can anybody here play this game?
mjlaverty@... 22nd Oct 2009
Global Warming is little more than Solar Flare activity... even the guy who started the Weather Channel agrees. there is a lot more collaborative data for solar flares over CO2. I'm not saying that we shouldnt do our best to respect our home planet, but seriously. Lighten up.
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CO2 is not bad. It's what the plants and trees and grass use to live and produce the oxygen that we breath and allows us to live.
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Like a sweater on a hot day
Reality-based 23rd Oct 2009
CO2 is like a sweater on a hot day - it insulates. Hence global warming AND climate change.
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CO2 levels would go up if you rip all the trees down and plant corn or beets to burn later as a fuel. There are no more trees to absorb the extra CO2. Maybe we should use ultra efficient diesel over electric hybrids. Turn off our computers at night instead of going for the record breaking up-time. Sun spots are at a low time ebb so that is why we are cooling off. I would only worry if the O2 levels dropped. This author worries about stuff that man has very little control over. Worry about your own garden before you come over and try to micromanage mine. I can assure you that I don't have a coal fired car, really.
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Oh Harry, just let it go man.
CounterEthicsCommissioner-23034636492738337469105860790963 22nd Oct 2009
Get a job.
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Amazing times
Dorkyman 22nd Oct 2009
I just have to take a step back and laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Man, historians hundreds of years from now will wonder just what was in the water to make so many of us absolutely nuts.

Now, let's just hope Messiah FAILS enacting his agenda before he gets booted out. (Note to zombies: not his health or his family, just his policies.)
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Harry, some reading material
Dorkyman 22nd Oct 2009
Since we're talking AGW, you might find this interesting.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024771.php
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And if they were wrong about this...
cmcfarling 22nd Oct 2009
No wonder more and more people are seeing anthropogenic global warming as a political tax-grabbing scheme than a life threatening crisis.

Poll: Americans' belief in global warming cools
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-ZiXMrCMn_Vo2QQJncPTUGp-sJAD9BG7BE80

It may be time for Al to make a new movie. Perhaps he can use this clip
http://www.overstream.net/swf/player/oplx?oid=ujrbtfntt9r3&noplay=1
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The whole point of scientific peer review is to vet
out emotionally charged and politically driven claims.
Unfortunately, GW "science" has rushed to make the-
sky-is -falling claims off of assumptions off of
results off of "projected models" which contain only
slightly more hard science than a 1-900 astrologist.

Instead of waiting for peer reviewed confirmation or
critique, global policies have been passed, Billions
of dollars squandered and Billions of people
brainwashed for nothing tangible.

The same people who yell and scream when pharmaceutical companies want shorter review and
faster acceptance procedures do not want to apply the
same safeguards to their own zealotry.

This is only the beginning of a whole slew of scientific review "discoveries" that are bound to
occur over the next 10 years, now that there has been
time to test, evaluate and objectively respond to the
impulsive claims, policies and resultant actions of
the current global cult: Global Warming.

Harry, if you'd actually been listening to your respondents, you wouldn't be so surprised!

Nathan



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