Comments on: Biofuel or Biohazard? http://ecoworld.com/blog/2007/05/09/biofuel-or-biohazard/ Ed Ring's EcoWorld Posts Thu, 4 Dec 2008 19:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jack Sprat http://ecoworld.com/blog/2007/05/09/biofuel-or-biohazard/#comment-17214 Jack Sprat Fri, 18 May 2007 07:04:48 +0000 http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2007/05/09/biofuel-or-biohazard/#comment-17214 It is astonishing that the great environmental groups no longer care about the rainforests. Where is the ubiquitous "white paper" quantifying the area of tropical rainforest lost, year over year for the recent past years and accelerating in the future? Where is the dire projection, and the call to action - save the rainforest? Where are reliable numbers - how much area of biofuel plantations already exist that should be reverted to tropical rainforest? That is where these goofy carbon credits should go, if go they must, and nowhere else. Tropical rainforests create the monsoon circulation increasing moderate global storm circulation and transpirate rain back up and increase rain runoff to the rivers and more trees squester more water in the earth, and everything cools and settles down. This is the cause that would be worth the fanaticism, perhaps. To produce more and to plant more and to water the trees of the forest. It is astonishing that the great environmental groups no longer care about the rainforests. Where is the ubiquitous “white paper” quantifying the area of tropical rainforest lost, year over year for the recent past years and accelerating in the future? Where is the dire projection, and the call to action - save the rainforest?

Where are reliable numbers - how much area of biofuel plantations already exist that should be reverted to tropical rainforest? That is where these goofy carbon credits should go, if go they must, and nowhere else.

Tropical rainforests create the monsoon circulation increasing moderate global storm circulation and transpirate rain back up and increase rain runoff to the rivers and more trees squester more water in the earth, and everything cools and settles down. This is the cause that would be worth the fanaticism, perhaps. To produce more and to plant more and to water the trees of the forest.

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