Deforestation needs to be in next climate pact

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSSP14243520071001

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Cutting emissions from deforestation will be key to curbing climate change and should be agreed upon in December's climate talks in Bali, a leading Indonesian forestry researcher said on Monday.

The conference on the resort island is expected to initiate talks on clinching a new deal by 2009 to fight global warming.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, developed nations can pay poor countries to cut emissions from activities such as the manufacture of refrigerants and fertilizers as well as capturing greenhouse gases from farm waste and rubbish dumps.

But greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, nearly 20 percent of the world's total, are not yet eligible for trade because they were excluded from the Kyoto Protocol's first round, which runs out in 2012.

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Sumatra where the palm oil plantations are?

But, what would we put in the gas tank of the E320 Mercedes wagon, if we did that?

And unless anyone is mistaken, the E320 has joined, along with the Dodge Ram 2500 (great for hauling ton quantities of turkeys to the Changing World "Turkey guts to oil plant") the Biodiesel Brigade.

Um. This great biodiesel news about the E320 just makes you want to rush right out and buy one, and get all cozy around the fire sipping Allen's Coffee Brandy, doesn't it?

And one can buy an E320 for "only" $55,000 (accessories like 8 spoke wheels extra), mere pocket change.

You are a comedian, aren't you?

Speaking of Brazil, did you see di Castro's paper in the upcoming issue of Energy and Fuels on the transesterification of palm oil using silica immobilized lipases?

No?

You don't read those kind of papers? They're to sciency?

What about the Brazilian scientist Augustini's paper in the same journal on ESI-MS fingerprinting of palm oil fractions.

No?

You couldn't care less about all this Brazilian interest in palm oil?

What do you suppose is driving it? Let me guess, it's pharmaceuticals and food, right?

Well if you read the paper, Augustini says this, first sentence:



Um. Animal fats.

Distilled tigers are good for making biodiesel.

Then quoth Augustini:



I just searched the article for the word pharmaceutical:

It occurs zero times.

I also searched for the word "food" and it appears nowhere in the text, although several articles from the scientific journal J. Agr. Food. Chem are referenced.

Thus it would seem that Doctor Augustini's interest is involved in the car culture.

That's just what the world needs: More Brazilian biofuels.

Maybe you should forward this to the Illiterate Wife Club - they'd get a kick out of it...