Global Warming

• Massachusetts Issues First-in-the-Nation Limits on Biomass Energy, Partnership for Policy Integrity, April 27, 2012.
• EIP Report:  Waste-to-Energy Incinerators Pollute More Per Hour of Energy than Coal-Fired Power Plants and Are Not Renewable, Environmental Integrity Project, October 13, 2011.
• New Study Suggests EU Biofuels Are As Carbon Intensive as Petrol, University of Leicester, November 4, 2011.
• Debunking the Biomass Myth, Center for Biological Diversity, August 2011.
• Berkeley Researchers Say Carbon Pollution Can Be Turned Into Energy, inhabitat, August 9, 2011.
• The False Promise of Biofuels, Scientific American, August 10, 2011.
• What’s the Cost to Slow Global Warming?  $500 Billion a Year, Tiny Green Bubble, April 9, 2011.
• Biomass Reality Check: Lessons Learned in Massachusetts, Masssachusetts Forest Watch, March 2, 2011.
• Scientists’ Letter to Washington State Legislature: Burning Biomass Can Increase Total Carbon Emissions, February 2, 2011.
• The New Biomassters – Synthetic Biology & the Next Assault on Biodiversity & Livelihoods, ETCgroup, November 2, 2010.
• Report:  Warmest June on Record Globally, CNN World, July 18, 2010.
• Evidence of Climate Change Springs Ahead with Blooming Wildflowers, grist, June 23, 2010.
• Massachusetts Study: Wood Power Worse Polluter Than Coal, The Associated Press, by Steve LeBlanc, June 10, 2010.
• 90 Scientists Urge US Congress to Improve Carbon Accounting for Biofuels and Bioenergy, May 17, 2010.
• The Wrong Kind of Green, The Nation, March 4, 2010.
• If It Does Matter Where CO2 is Released, Cities are in Trouble, grist, March 17, 2010.
• Wood-Fueled Biomass Power Plants & CO2 Emissions, Massachusetts Forest Watch, March 24, 2010.
• Cap-and-Dividend is SOOO the New Cap-and-Trade, Care2 Newsletter, February 20, 2010.
• Biomass Blunder: USDA Advocates Burning Wood for Electricity, CARE2, March 6, 2010.
• Why Biomass Wood Energy is Not the Answer, Counterpunch.org, January 12, 2010.
• Health & Safety Risks of Carbon Capture and Storage, Journal of the American Medical Association/JAMA, January 6, 2010.
• Cap and Dividend, On the Commons, 2010.
• “The Story of Cap & Trade”, by Annie Leonard, a ten-minute, highly-accessible video about why Cap & Trade is NOT a solution to global warming.
• Green Nightmare: Burning Biomass is Not Renewable Energy, Huffington Post, December 17, 2009.
• “Low-carbon Future: We Can Afford to Go Green”, New Scientist, December 2, 2009.
• “They’d Shoot Trees, Wouldn’t They?  Climate Laws Encourage Deforestation, Scientists Say”, Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2009.
• “Who Says It’s Green to Burn Woodchips?”, The Independent, 10/25/09.
• “Al Gore Calls on World to Burn Less Fuel & Wood to Curb ‘Black Carbon’”, April 28, 2009.
• Biofuels Deemed A Greenhouse Threat, New York Times, February 8, 2008.
• Study: Bio-fuels may actually be accelerating global warming, Chicago (AFP), February 14, 2009.
• Next Generation Biofuels: Bursting the New ‘Green’ Bubble, ETC (Action Group on Erosion, Technology & Concentration), January 15, 2009.
• “Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: False Solutions to Climate Change”
• “A Red Flag on Green Energy Plan” by Mary Stuart Booth, MA Environmental Energy Alliance, Boston Globe, May 22, 2009.
• Persistence Stops a Train–& Global Warming Slowed, grist, August 27, 2009.
• “Fuzzy Logic on Wood-burning” by David Baumann, The Berkshire Eagle, April 11, 2009.
• “Risky Business: Burning Wood & Other Biomass for Energy”
• “Wood Ash: The Unregulated Radwaste
• “The Clean Energy Scam” by Michael Grunwald from TIME Magazine, March 27, 2008.
• “Particles Cause Climate Change: Why Wood Burning is Not Carbon-Neutral” from Science Daily, July 19, 2006.
• “Black Carbon Emerges as a Main Contributor to Global Warming” from World Resources Institute, March 30, 2008.
• Wood is New Coal as Polluters Use Carbon-Eating Trees, Bloomberg.Com, June 2, 2009.
• Damage to Forests from Climate Change by Megan Dold, IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organization), April 17, 2009.
• Key Role of Forests “May Be Lost” by Mark Kinver, BBC News, April 18, 2009.
• Read Rabl, A., A. Benoist, et al. (2007). “Editorial – How to Account for CO2 Emissions from Biomass in an LCA.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 12(5): 281.
• Incineration of Municipal Solid Waste: Impact on Global Warming, CitizensWasteInfo, 2006.
• “Potential of Cellulosic Production from Municipal Solid Waste”
• “The Biofuel Illusion”
• “Global Civil Society Opposes Charred Earth Policy”, Rainforest Alliance, Hamburg, Germany, April 6, 2009.
• “Woodchips With Everything”, The Guardian, March 24, 2009.
• “Biochar:  Another False Solution to Climate Change”, Organic Consumers Association, March 20, 2009.
• “Stop Promotion of Biochar!”, Ecological Internet, April 2, 2009.
• “Chemicals: Scientists Find New Toxin in Pine Tree Fires”
• “Poultry-Powered Plants Pollute More Than Coal?
• “Why are biofuels losing steam in Europe . . . and barreling ahead in the U.S.?”