Well I am not sure I buy 85%. This seems a bit skewed as high. I say this because not all mans activities have been adverse. in example, The Dakotas have a hundred fold more trees than existed 200 years ago. There are also more crops in production that are bigger co2 gulpers than native crops.
I also understand this is just a very small snapshot in the whole scheme of things and the fact that those crops can also be used to create methane as a result of feed stocks and so forth. But when we use numbers like that, we will tend to disenchant those on the edge of understanding. Jim >From: Philip Gwinnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Chicken Little Strikes Again! CO2 is rising!C02 >isrising!A scientific Rebutal >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 03:23:43 +0000 > > >Jim, > >The info came from the World Resources Institute (www.wri.org) There's a >ton of useful stuff on their site. > >Best Regards > >Philip >Hainan Bioenergy > > > > >---------------------------------------- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org > > Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:43:40 -0700 > > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Chicken Little Strikes Again! CO2 is rising!C02 >isrising!A scientific Rebutal > > > > Phillip wrote > > Snip At the same time, 85% of the world's forests (which are natural >carbon > > sinks) have been destroyed or degraded. > > > > Phillip, Where do you get this data? Does this number include the >replanted > > areas of forest and Higher plant life (co2 absorption) as a result of > > irrigation and pulp? > > > > Not in dispute but I would like to know how it is derived. > > > > Jim > > > > > > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Personalize your Live.com homepage with the news, weather, and photos you >care about. >http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx?icid=T001MSN30A0701 >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
