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| Southeast Asia |
| Peat bog burning blamed for much of global warming |
| 2005-09-02 |
| EFL Burning peat bogs set alight by rainforest clearance in Indonesia are releasing up to a seventh of the world's total fossil fuel emissions in a single year, the geographers' conference heard yesterday. Tropical peatlands are one of the largest stores of carbon on the Earth's surface and setting them alight is contributing massively to global warming, said Dr Susan Page, senior lecturer in geography at Leicester University. Blame Bush in 10, 9, 8... |
| Posted by:Omumble Shavith6351 |
| #2 Putting out these fires would reduce CO2 emissions by far more than Kyoto and cost vastly less, but they don't fit the tranzi agenda and hence get ignored. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-09-02 22:30 |
| #1 Its not just peat also coal seams burning. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-09-02 22:27 |