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Burning wood for power is ‘misguided’ say climate experts
Policies aimed at limiting climate change by boosting the burning of biomass contain critical flaws that could actually damage attempts to avert dangerous levels of global warming in the future. That is the stark view of one of Britain’s chief climate experts, Professor John Beddington, who has warned that relying on the cutting down and burning of trees as a replacement for the use of fossil fuels could rebound dangerously.
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Let’s see... we’ll cut down the things that remove CO_2 from the atmosphere, and burn them. Sounds like a great idea!
It's like smoking weed to treat cancer. Is there anything long-chain carbon molecule carcinogens can't cure?