Feb
Enough to make an Orang Utan laugh
It is estimated that production of one ton of palm oil will result in an average emission of 20 tons of CO2 from peat decomposition alone. I thought bio-fuel was carbon neutral.
Feb
When is an oil palm plantation a rainforest?
And another from commenter Graham. He’s on a roll. When is an oil palm plantation a rainforest? When the EC is handing out carbon offsets and paying for rainforests to be burned. “Two weeks ago, a leaked document from the EU revealed that the European Commission and some member states hope to include oil palm [...]
Jan
Mainsteam media picking up on climate change skepticism
You gotta love it. Tale a look at these two sets of stories we got when checking Google News for climate change news. The first lists 204 news stories on the false rainforest claims, and the second lists 47 stories on the Pew Poll that showed that of 21 concerns Americans have, global warming is dead last.