http://climateprogress.org/2006/12/22/the-climate-gift-that-perversely-keeps-on-giving/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:41:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://climateprogress.org/2006/12/22/the-climate-gift-that-perversely-keeps-on-giving/#comment-3534 Climate Progress » Blog Archive » The Debut of Deforestation Diesel Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:37:08 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2006/12/22/the-climate-gift-that-perversely-keeps-on-giving/#comment-3534 [...] ClimateProgress has covered one tricky facet of our forests before by looking at how misplaced afforestation can propel warming. Now word is spreading that plantation forests for biofuel and ethanol crops are rivaling natural forests. In the process, clearing the land emits mass amounts of carbon dioxide and the ecosystem replanted to harvest fuel tends to be worse for the environment. [...] […] ClimateProgress has covered one tricky facet of our forests before by looking at how misplaced afforestation can propel warming. Now word is spreading that plantation forests for biofuel and ethanol crops are rivaling natural forests. In the process, clearing the land emits mass amounts of carbon dioxide and the ecosystem replanted to harvest fuel tends to be worse for the environment. […]

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