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2007-04-18 Down Under

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-18 11:45|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dr Flannery said the Stern report into the world's environmental state identified biofuel use as one of the cheapest methods to halt global warming.

What the??????

This person just identified himself as an idiot. Biofuels produce carbon dioxide when burned, just the same as gasoline or diesel. Carbon dioxide and methane, two of the most talked-about "greenhouse gasses", are also given off during processing. If there were ever any doubt that "global warming" is a contrived "catastrophe", this eliminated it. What a doofus!

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-18 14:14|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-18 14:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Biofuels (plants) take carbon out of the atmosphere. Burning it then returns carbon. Net zero. Mining carbon sources reintroduces carbon that was taken out of the atmosphere millions of years ago.

The catch is that biofuels are low yield and produced with mined fuels as inputs. Oil and gas production has an energy yield of 10-15 while grain ethanol has a yield of 1.3 or lower. In other worlds, to put a gallon of fuel into your tank, it takes 1.1 gallons of oil while it takes 4 gallons of ethanol (if ethanol was the only fuel used in production). A huge effort to go nowhere and a point environmentalists studiously ignore.

Posted by ed 2007-04-18 15:07|| 2007-04-18 15:07|| Front Page Top

#3 How bout you drink that shit instead!

Posted by Crolugum Ghibelline5943 2007-04-18 16:07|| 2007-04-18 16:07|| Front Page Top

#4 So...what do you drive, doc? Horse and buggy?

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-18 16:42|| 2007-04-18 16:42|| Front Page Top

#5 He can't drive a horse and buggy. Horse gives off CO2 and methane.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-18 17:05|| 2007-04-18 17:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Australia lags behind in a lot of things. We're a little bit isolated.

Hahahahahahhahahahahaha! Ima sorry. thatn was sweet. Hahahahahahahah! oppps, damn Ima noseDrown. Lordy gimme a kleeeeenex.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-18 18:27|| 2007-04-18 18:27|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and there is lots happening in the US and Canada...

Which means what, exactly? Aren't there a lot of cars on our roads? Are we suddenly converting to telecommuting or some such horsepuckey? I suppose our reverting to employ carrier pigeons would further reduce our 'carbon footprint', right?

I can't wait until I read Tim Blair's take on this. Flannerty seems like a watered down version of Al Bore.

Ever wonder why global warming types like this don't discuss alternatives to the energy generation capability they'd like to eliminate?

Posted by Raj 2007-04-18 20:09|| 2007-04-18 20:09|| Front Page Top

#8 He can't drive a horse and buggy. Horse gives off CO2 and methane.

And if I rode my bike to work instead, my perspiration would be my excess contribution to the global warming plague. If I have to piss afterwards, all the worse. I suppose I'll just quit my job and preserve my environment...

Posted by Raj 2007-04-18 20:17|| 2007-04-18 20:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds more like a self defense issue. Rightly so.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-18 23:40|| 2007-04-18 23:40|| Front Page Top

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