Trump admin promises to 'encourage' tree burning for energy

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

Three federal agencies said Thursday that they’re working to embrace burning trees and other biomass to create energy.

Labeling wood burning as environmentally friendly is at odds with environmental groups and some scientists, who say that the process of creating electricity, steam or other energy forms from wood releases all of the carbon dioxide that the trees had previously removed from the atmosphere.

William Schlesinger, a biogeochemist who used to lead the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, wrote in Science earlier this year that burning wood is likely a net negative for the environment.

“Trees remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and burning wood returns it. But recent evidence shows that the use of wood as fuel is likely to result in net CO2 emissions and may endanger forest biodiversity,” he said.



Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/414373-trump-admin-promises-to-encourage-tree-burning-for-energye

[Cousin Dupree]

1. Trump wants to encourage cross burning, not tree burning

[BumRushDaShow]

20. THIS

Same difference -

[cstanleytech]

32. Well its certainly plausible given how he likes to pour gas on open fires. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Burning is rapid decay and release

instead of slowly. And only already dead trees should be burned.

[DownriverDem]

17. Can Cause Sickness

My brother's family quit burning wood for heat because they kept getting sick.

[pioche4]

3. Oh for Fuck's sake...let's just harness the blowhard air out of Trumps mouth

[pecosbob]

4. Sure...lets make the rest of the world look like Haiti.

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[Control-Z]

15. What is this image about? eom

[NurseJackie]

25. One side is Haiti. The other side is the Dominican Republic.

[Control-Z]

30. I was afraid that's what it was.

Was hoping it was a rendering of a "worst case scenario".

[pecosbob]

29. Forced to denude the countryside of trees to make charcoal for cooking and cleaning

[Control-Z]

31. Damn. That is so incredibly depressing.

Of course the maggot wants this. Of course.

I know hating is unhealthy yet I feel it growing by the day. Sometimes by the hour.

[obamanut2012]

35. Or the UK

[iluvtennis]

5. Idiots.

[olegramps]

6. This is as nut as when Mao had a metal scavenger drive.

People were so fanatic to not be see as shirkers that they destroyed their own cooking tinsels. I can see the nutty Republicans cutting down their fruit trees and throwing their furniture in the bonfire along with every book in the library.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

21. I recall that...

... and the metal they melted down in their, "home smelters", was worthless as anything but a doorstop or speed bump.

[hatrack]

43. "Book"? "Library"?

[olegramps]

45. FOX will provide them with maps, pictures of what libraries and books look like.

I had a close relative who was took part in the Catholic Church's war on movie theaters, books publishers in what they called the drive to establish decency. People took pledge in Church to uphold the church's bans on theaters and publishers and sent out people to picket movie theaters that dared to show films they found objectionable. This was especially appealing to this relative who went to every drug store, book shop with his list of items to be ban. Here is the strange thing about it. He never read a book in his entire life and was funcually illiterate. We laughed at the fool as he tried to match up the titles and demanding that the sellers remove them. The League for Decency's life was short lived and soon discredited by virtually every intellectual in the country. I realize that this is old history, but it is analogous with the same mentality of the Trumpites who display the same ignorance. Today you would have a impossible job trying to convince Catholics to take some pledge or boycott and picket movie theaters and book sellers. New generations are coming and I have faith that they will come to their senses just as my generation did.

[Javaman]

7. in other news: the orange asshole encouraged the eating of baby seals to stop world hunger. nt

[Javaman]

8. in other news: when asked about the Bald Eagle, the national symbol, the orange asshole responded...

"tastes like chicken".

[dalton99a]

9. Trump would love to burn the Amazon

[NurseJackie]

26. Because he hates Bezos.

[sandensea]

37. And his pal Bolsonazi's on it

As you've no doubt heard, he's openly hostile to the environmental movement - and today in fact announced he's nixing Brazil's Ministry of Environment.

He's subsuming it into the Ministry of Agriculture - the very people most responsible for the wave of deforestation (rain forests the size of Texas, gone just since 1970).

Ugly times, these.

[dalton99a]

38. Yep. It's open season on the Amazon.

Murderous sociopaths

[Glorfindel]

10. Not to worry. The oil/gas industry will never allow itself to be challenged.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Where does he find all this BS?

I know, I know... the answer is out his ass.
What a stink.

[Dave Starsky]

44. It's like he has a Master's degree in reckless stupidity.

It would actually take that level of dedication to be such a colossal idiot.

[tclambert]

12. Would these trees be shaped like crosses and located in the front yards of black people?

'Cause that's what a lot of Trump supporters like to burn.

I'm not saying Trump is a racist, but to paraphrase Gillum, all the racists think Trump is on their side.

[Solly Mack]

13. He needs to go.

He really needs to be gone. Now.

[FiveGoodMen]

18. His 100,000,000 minions need to go, too

[japple]

14. Link isn't working. :-(

[Eugene]

16. There's a typo in the link. That last 'e' shouldn't be there.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/414373-trump-admin-promises-to-encourage-tree-burning-for-energy

[Marthe48]

19. Here's a link to hazards of wildfire

which is mainly wood, right? There was a chemical warehouse fire in Parkersburg, WV just 1 year ago, and I was trying to find information about the air quality hazards. Not a whisper, but I found out that wood smoke isn't healthy.

https://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm?action=smoke.index

I imagine whatever ass thought this up is taking a dig at environmentalists.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Only you can prevent forests - Donald J Trump

[Jedi Guy]

46. Only you can prevent forests. - Dopey the Boor

Fixed that for you.

[The Liberal Lion]

23. I don't even understand how he considers himself smart

The thing that come out of this man's mouth barley make him cognizant, let alone intelligent.

[spike jones]

24. Brings to mind LOTR

and the Orcs pulling trees up by the roots and throwing them in a pit of fire.

[Rizen]

27. Why would we need to?

...burn wood? Why is this even coming up? It's stupid.

[littlemissmartypants]

42. Believe it or not this is an ongoing practice.

Duke energy in North Carolina buys wood chips to burn to produce electricity every day. I've been to two plants and seen it. Tree farms are harvested, chips are made and boom, on go the light switches.

[Bengus81]

28. Ok...start with every tree at all of his golf courses

[Equinox Moon]

33. The forest fires across this nation are enough wood burning for many lifetimes.

[NCjack]

34. Trump is not likely to direct energy policy to include burning wood

to generate electrical power. Wood burning combined with planting more trees to yield excess wood mass is too environmentalyl "green" for him. He is after all, a coal man. He has his reputation to protect.

[sandensea]

36. Bush promised to bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age

Cheeto intends on decreeing the U.S. into one.

[k-dub]

39. I hate this world

some scientists, who say that the process of creating electricity, steam or other energy forms from wood releases all of the carbon dioxide that the trees had previously removed from the atmosphere.

Why is it only SOME scientists? Are they talking about dead trees?

I am beyond flabbergasted.

[Kaleva]

40. The fossil fuel industry and its supporters will fight this tooth and nail.

[SergeStorms]

41. Whatever situation arises....

you can always count on the Trump administration to make the absolute worst decision to handle it. Wind power, solar power? HA! That would be efficient and renewable. Let's push coal and wood instead! Seriously, they always make the worst decisions possible. The dumbshitometer just went off the scale.