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> "Billary/2008" <F#%K_Liberals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Why don't you learn about Global Warming before you make yourself into a
> bigger idiot than you already are, Nazi. What happened, your night
school
> teacher find out you were half Nigerian and take away your
swastika-draped
> moped?
Have you seen what the tree hugers are saying about carbon Credits?
http://www.sinkswatch.org/pubs/forestfraud.pdf
1. Carbon in trees is not equivalent to carbon in fossil fuels:
Tree-stored
carbon is easily released into the atmosphere through fire, natural decay
and timber harvesting. Carbon in fossil fuels is locked away and only
released through human intervention. Carbon credits that equate the two
are
based on a false premise.
2. One-way road: Trees provide tem****ary carbon storage as part of the
normal cycle of carbon exchange between forests and the atmosphere. The
release of carbon from fossil fuels is permanent and, over relevant
timescales, will accelerate climate change by increasing the active carbon
pool and destabilising carbon flows.
3. Fake credit: Carbon sink credits in the Kyoto Protocol use tem****ary
tree
plantations to justify permanent releases of fossil-stored carbon into the
atmosphere. Carbon sink credits are fake credits for the climate.
4. Footprint chaos: Carbon sink credits increase the ecological debt of
the
North. The more fossil fuel a Northern country uses, the more land it is
entitled to use to 'offset' its emissions. This is unfair and undermines
global efforts towards sustainable development.
5. Subsidies for mega-plantations: The Kyoto Protocol stands to provide a
new subsidy for the plantations industry. Do***ented evidence shows how
large-scale plantations have negative impacts on forests and forest
peoples.
Kyoto includes no meaningful safeguards to rule out large-scale
monoculture
tree plantations from receiving carbon credits.
6. Communities suffer twice: First, climate change affects the livelihoods
of forest peoples and rural communities through increased droughts,
floods,
forest fires and deforestation. Second, carbon sink credits promote the
expansion of large-scale tree plantations, which indigenous peoples and
forestdependent communities are opposing in many parts of the world.
7. Arming a time bomb: Avoiding climate change requires drastic reductions
of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, but carbon sink projects do
nothing to help solve this problem; in fact they mask the real crisis.
This
is sentencing future generations to live with fewer choices and worse
conditions.
8. Forest fraud: Forests play a vital role in storing carbon and buffering
extreme weather events. But linking forest restoration with carbon credits
is a dead-end for forest peoples as well as for the climate. Halting the
forest crisis requires action against the underlying causes of
deforestation, not a bigger active carbon pool and more monoculture tree
plantations.
9. Blind guess: Measuring carbon pools is fraught with uncertainties.
Scientists have found that estimates of the carbon balance in Canadian
forests could vary by 1000 per cent if seemingly small factors, such as
increased levels of atmospheric CO2, are taken into account.
10. Phony climate fix: Real and lasting solutions to the forest crisis and
the climate crisis lie in providing incentives for forest-dependent
communities and indigenous peoples to restore their forests and practice
sustainable forest management. Small-scale pilot projects are already
showing positive results, while large-scale carbon sink projects are
attracting criticism and protest.
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