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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Another excellent example of “man-made global warming” lies and deception

Written by Joel Johannesen on Thursday August 09 2007 at 07:42 AM


A radical left-wing environut forest creature named Tzeporah Berman is down in groovy L.A. helping to tout Hollywood liberal (and environmental/political genius) Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest Al Gore-style deception-based flick on the “man-made global warming”, by telling lies and deceiving people, as I understand it.  She is and has long been one of the biggest pains in the bark for the forest industry in British Columbia, constantly shrieking about forest practices, marching in protests, tying herself to trees and things, not bathing, getting arrested, and so on, like other typical hippies and communists all over Canada.  Berman is a “board member” (cute—almost corporate-like) of the terrorist-like environut organization the Ruckus Society.

And she’s down there trying to convince the world that people ought to stop using trees from BC.  She’s got a place or two to live, she’s likely sworn-off toilet paper, and someone else buys her the computer paper she needs, so there’s no longer a need for trees, I think is her logic. That’s how most of these folks think. (Plus something about Bush, and “profits”, I have no doubt…)

The trouble is, as is the usual practice among her tribe, she’s spewing pure junk science and lies, if I understand the following article in the National Post correctly. 

[...]

But there is a problem with her argument: its underlying facts are wrong—or at least, misleading—according to the Canadian federal government’s own reports to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the globe’s global-warming intelligence centre.

In fact, in 11 of the past 16 years, Canada’s managed forests have sucked up more greenhouse gases than they have emitted.

And logging was not to blame for those five years when the woods were net emitters, said one of Canada’s leading forest carbon experts.

That, said Werner Kurz, a senior research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, “is because of years with large forest fires and, more recently, the mountain pine beetle.”

What Ms. Berman has done, he said, is fail to account for the fact that every tree cut down in this country is replaced by another tree, which then begins once again sucking carbon from the atmosphere.

“It’s like looking at a partial balance sheet. You’re looking at the expenses but you’re not looking at the returns,” he said.

Perhaps more important, even Mr. Kurz’s numbers do not truly reflect how powerful Canada’s forests—even with all the logging that takes place every year—can be in removing greenhouse gases, since the Canadian Forest Service uses United Nations carbon-accounting guidelines.

Under those rules, a tree removed from the forest is treated as if it is instantly vaporized into greenhouse gases.

This, of course, is not true—many trees are turned into furniture or books that will not release their carbon for many years, effectively making them carbon storehouses.

The distinction is important, because it dramatically understates how effective Canada’s forests have been at sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

A study by the Ontario Forest Research Institute found that by using United Nations math, in the next century Ontario’s forests—even with all the logging expected to take place in those years—will remove a net 69.4-million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.

But take into account the carbon that will remain stored in a century’s worth of kitchen tables and 2x4s, and the amount more than sextuples to 433.8-million tonnes. That is equivalent to the carbon emissions produced by all of Canada’s cars in a decade.

The danger, however, is that those facts will be lost beneath Mr. DiCaprio’s seductive narration and that Canadian forestry companies will fall victim to his intonation that “the evidence is now clear. ... Industrial civilization has caused irreparable damage.”

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