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Thread #163494   Message #3901772
Posted By: DaveRo
25-Jan-18 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Smog & Global Warming
Subject: RE: BS: Smog & Global Warming
Senoufou wrote: So which fuels are the worst for causing global warming?
The fossil fuel that generates most CO2 for a given amount if heat - or electricity generated by such a fuel. And that's coal. Wood - or 'biomass' - even old fencing - is not a fossil fuel. Trees absorb CO2 when they grow so over 50 years or so the CO2 released by burning wood should be reabsorbed - provided we replant the trees. Indeed, the hotter it gets the more trees will grow. The world may end up reforested in the long run - like in the carboniforous period when dinosaurs existed. But in the long run we'll be extinct.
Senoufou wrote: And what about that famous hole in the ozone layer
That was unrelated to global warming. Ozone shields us from radiation which causes skin cancer.