Comments on: Rethinking Deforestation – A Copenhagen Challenge http://domesticfuel.com/2009/12/02/rethinking-deforestation-a-copenhagen-challenge/ Alternative Fuel News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:31:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Big Oil Behind Yet Another Biofuels Research Paper - Domestic Fuel http://domesticfuel.com/2009/12/02/rethinking-deforestation-a-copenhagen-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-119406 Big Oil Behind Yet Another Biofuels Research Paper - Domestic Fuel Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:53:38 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=19765#comment-119406 [...] a sound? Only in this situation the saying should be modified as follows: If a tree is cut down in a rainforest in Brazil to sell wood, should corn ethanol’s carbon footprint go up? Anyone with an ounce of [...] [...] a sound? Only in this situation the saying should be modified as follows: If a tree is cut down in a rainforest in Brazil to sell wood, should corn ethanol’s carbon footprint go up? Anyone with an ounce of [...]

]]> By: Buck Slocombe http://domesticfuel.com/2009/12/02/rethinking-deforestation-a-copenhagen-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-117675 Buck Slocombe Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:55:40 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=19765#comment-117675 David~ It's not just the wood, but the thousands of years worth of dead leaves, branches, and other decomposing vegetation laying on the jungle floor. When the trees are gone, all that rotting vegetation on the jungle floor is disturbed, becomes exposed to oxygen, and starts releasing the carbon it contains. If that rotting vegetation were left there undisturbed, gradually it would turn into peat, and then into coal for some future form of life on Earth to dig up and burn in 75 million years or so. David~

It’s not just the wood, but the thousands of years worth of dead leaves, branches, and other decomposing vegetation laying on the jungle floor. When the trees are gone, all that rotting vegetation on the jungle floor is disturbed, becomes exposed to oxygen, and starts releasing the carbon it contains.

If that rotting vegetation were left there undisturbed, gradually it would turn into peat, and then into coal for some future form of life on Earth to dig up and burn in 75 million years or so.

]]> By: David Punter http://domesticfuel.com/2009/12/02/rethinking-deforestation-a-copenhagen-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-117650 David Punter Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:21:55 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=19765#comment-117650 The main problem is not the cutting of the trees but what happens afterwards, especially the conversion of the land to agriculture or urban development. If the land is reforested and the wood is used for construction, or some other application where it decays only very slowly, there is likely to be a net gain in carbon sequestration. I agree that the drivers in most cases are socio-economic, hence the benefit of the £10 billion fund proposed by Gordon Brown to reward results in combatting climate change. The main problem is not the cutting of the trees but what happens afterwards, especially the conversion of the land to agriculture or urban development. If the land is reforested and the wood is used for construction, or some other application where it decays only very slowly, there is likely to be a net gain in carbon sequestration. I agree that the drivers in most cases are socio-economic, hence the benefit of the £10 billion fund proposed by Gordon Brown to reward results in combatting climate change.

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