[Stoves] Biomass and climate-neutrality (Re: Ron on Kirk Smith)

[Paul Anderson]

Nikhil,

You wrote:
>
> “/*To begin with, biomass is not GHG-neutral. Period*. "/
>
> This time I will give you some suggestions to read - Ruddiman 
> <http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Ruddiman2003.pdf> and 
> Unger <http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2013/2013_Unger_un02100s.pdf>. 
> Also this 
> <http://www.humansandnature.org/william-ruddiman-and-the-ruddiman-hypothesis>. 
> Prove me wrong. 
I looked at the abstracts of those three documents and did not see 
support for your statement.  Certainly there have been changes in the 
atmospheric CO2 in past thousands of years.  But that is not the essence 
of what is being stated, which is:

A living plant takes in CO2, grows, dies and CO2 eventually goes back 
into the atmosphere (allowing for delays while the root rot, or for 
geologic time for formation of fossil fuels, etc., which is not what is 
being discussed).

For me, this specific topic is concluded.

Paul

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