Researchers: Wood Burning Unsustainable, Huge Footprint…”Will Accelerate Warming For Decades”

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Researchers: Wood Burning Unsustainable, Huge Footprint…”Will Accelerate Warming For Decades”
By P Gosselin on 17. June 2022

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“Worse than fossil fuels”…wood burning “must stop…”
 
Source: Klimaschau 115

Governments and activists like claiming that burning wood and wood pellets from trees in power plants is an effective way to reduce global CO2 emissions. Yet researchers now say it is in fact having the opposite effect.

Hat-tip: Klimaschau 115

A team led by Laura Bloomer concluded here in a report that “burning trees and other forest biomass for energy is contrary to climate mitigation, biodiversity protection, and environmental justice goals” and that “governments must stop promoting climate-damaging forest bioenergy.” The researchers are calling for a stop to the folly of burning trees.
 
Takes decades to offset

According to the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) press release, such bioenergy indeed “has a substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint and will accelerate warming for decades” and “in fact, burning woody biomass releases more carbon dioxide (CO2) than fossil fuels per unit of energy” and that it takes many decades for tree regrowth to offset those emissions.

https://notrickszone.com/2022/06/17/researchers-wood-burning-unsustainable-huge-footprintwill-accelerate-warming-for-decades/

[Kamaji]

environmental justice goals

Yeah, about that:  go pound sand, you irritating little socialist/fascist flea.

[roamer_1]

A quarter million acres go up in smoke in Montana alone, you sonsabiches... Because YOU cut off timber sales. So don't tell me a damn thing about my little woodstove.

[mountaineer]

We've obtained our firewood only from trees on our property that were "naturally" felled, mostly from high winds. They fall over easily, as our soil is too poor to permit them to develop robust root systems. Last year, an 80' oak tree was uprooted, so we harvested what we wanted. It's cut and stacked and we'll probably never get to it.

[Bigun]

A quarter million acres go up in smoke in Montana alone, you sonsabiches... Because YOU cut off timber sales. So don't tell me a damn thing about my little woodstove.

 

[Wingnut]

I suggest we burn econerds instead of wood. But the toxin's released might cause mass extinction of normal people.  Next best thing....wood chippers.

[berdie]

Double Amen! @Bigun If I hadn't had a fireplace and wood burning stove during Icemeggdon when the electricity was off for days...I'd have frozen to death. They didn't save the plumbing, but they did save me.

[Bigun]

Double Amen! @Bigun If I hadn't had a fireplace and wood burning stove during Icemeggdon when the electricity was off for days...I'd have frozen to death. They didn't save the plumbing, but they did save me.

@berdie When I built this house (1979) I spend a LOT to have a heatilator fireplace installed.  Best money I ever spent! Saved our bacon several times over the years.

[andy58-in-nh]

Before human beings were around to reduce naturally-occurring and excess forest expansion, and before we humans developed the technology to extinguish lightning-caused fires, areas the size of large states used to burn, uncontrolled, all the time.

On balance, using wood to heat your home in the winter helps the environment.

So let's please tell the idiots to shut up and open a book, rather than their mouths.   

[Smokin Joe]

Double Amen! @Bigun If I hadn't had a fireplace and wood burning stove during Icemeggdon when the electricity was off for days...I'd have frozen to death. They didn't save the plumbing, but they did save me.

We had two blizzards in two weeks up here.
Power out to some areas for a month.
The fireplace is essential to survival here.
If they want to bitch about that, come here and we'll tie 'em up in a snowdrift to wait for spring.
Enough of this crap.
They have overloaded the grid with their electric cars.
Made it more difficult to discover new and produce existing (known) reserves of Oil and Natural Gas.
Waged war on the coal industry.
Now they want to tell us we can't use the fireplace?

F*** them.

Besides, if it accelerates warming, we won't need to burn as much.

[roamer_1]

Before human beings were around to reduce naturally-occurring and excess forest expansion, and before we humans developed the technology to extinguish lightning-caused fires, areas the size of large states used to burn, uncontrolled, all the time.

On balance, using wood to heat your home in the winter helps the environment.

So let's please tell the idiots to shut up and open a book, rather than their mouths.

All the while, btw, cooking and heating with wood, the world over...

A while back, while St. Helens was going off, some bobblehead said that one volcano released more pollutants into the atmosphere than man has done in his entire history - Somebody ought to stop at that, get out their crayons, and do some math.

[berdie]

All the while, btw, cooking and heating with wood, the world over...

A while back, while St. Helens was going off, some bobblehead said that one volcano released more pollutants into the atmosphere than man has done in his entire history - Somebody ought to stop at that, get out their crayons, and do some math.

Myself, I would like to just cut these "researchers" comfy electricity off for an extended period of time and see how they fare @roamer_1 . But I'm evil that way.

[DCPatriot]

LOL! 

All I could think of...Rush Limbaugh would have had a coronary talking about this on his show.

Miss him so much. 

[Smokin Joe]

All the while, btw, cooking and heating with wood, the world over...

A while back, while St. Helens was going off, some bobblehead said that one volcano released more pollutants into the atmosphere than man has done in his entire history - Somebody ought to stop at that, get out their crayons, and do some math.

Hah!

(They don't have enough appendages to count that high)

[Bigun]

LOL! 

All I could think of...Rush Limbaugh would have had a coronary talking about this on his show.

Miss him so much.

Yep! Buck and what's his name ain't cutting it!

[roamer_1]

Myself, I would like to just cut these "researchers" comfy electricity off for an extended period of time and see how they fare @roamer_1 . But I'm evil that way.

I'll come with to poke em with a stick @berdie
 

[roamer_1]

Hah!

(They don't have enough appendages to count that high)

 

[Fishrrman]

When people...
... can't burn oil
... can't burn coal
... can't burn natural gas
... then they'll burn whatever wood they can find. Even for just cooking.

On the left - Haiti.  On the right - the Dominican Republic.
Where did all the trees go on the Haiti side?