ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 10月6日 14時28分

Photo @edkashi/@viiphoto: Forests on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Humboldt, Callifornia in 2003. A recent article in the New York Times, explains how President Obama’s Clean Power Plan is in danger, as it’s being challenged by 28 states, and a bipartisan group of senators who want burning wood from forests for fuel to be considered carbon neutral. The article states, "As long as forests that have been cleared are regrown...senators [argue] that the EPA and the Agriculture Department should recognize the wood and other organic matter pulled from a forest “as a renewable energy source.” If they succeed, from next year to 2030 they will have added a cumulative total of at least 830 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air...That amounts to 64 million additional tons of carbon dioxide a year, on average, about the same amount that was produced by forest fires in the lower 48 states in 2013. It makes for a big hole in a plan that is supposed to cut annual emissions from the power sector by some 250 million tons between now and 2030.” The NY Times continues on to show there are a few problems with this kind of thinking. "Wood is not very efficient. In fact, burning trees to generate electricity generates more carbon per unit of power than using coal….And there is the problem of timing. Sure forests regrow. But it takes many decades for seedlings to grow into trees and recapture all the carbon emitted...The world simply does not have that kind of time.” #everydayclimatechange #cleanpowerplan #deforestation #actonclimate #climatechange

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