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Originally posted by jazz View PostChuck avoided this thread like there was covid in here. Hilarious. I guess Dani is his new obsession.
After reassuring us multiple times that we had nothing to worry about because MB hydro would be used as storage, he made the blunder of posting the article proving that MB will be unable to do any such thing.
If he ever responds, it will be interesting to see what mental gymnastics are required to keep all the plates spinning in his utopian energy future.
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Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View PostHe's still busy trying to figure out how his plans to back up AB and SK's wind and solar with MB hydro is going to work out when MB transitions to wind and solar as he told us in a previous post.
After reassuring us multiple times that we had nothing to worry about because MB hydro would be used as storage, he made the blunder of posting the article proving that MB will be unable to do any such thing.
If he ever responds, it will be interesting to see what mental gymnastics are required to keep all the plates spinning in his utopian energy future.
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https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/canada/
"Land use and forests in Canada are both a significant source and significant sink of emissions. Although net emissions for land use and forests in Canada are close to zero according to the national inventory, underlying this are strong emissions from harvested wood products that are balanced by emissions removals in managed forests. Both the sources and sinks are independently greater than 20% of emissions excluding LULUCF and we therefore highlight the sector for Canada. If either of the source or sink components change, net emissions will also change and there is potential for land-use and forests to become either a stronger contributor to overall emissions sources or removals."
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Don't get too excited about our land and forests absorbing more carbon than they release because its not true.
And with all the forest fires emissions are increasing!
Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook
You might have heard that Canada's forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we produce — so we don't have to worry about our greenhouse gas emissions.
This claim has been circulated on social media and repeated by pundits and politicians.
This would be convenient for our country, if it were real. Hitting our emissions-reduction targets would be a breeze. But, like most things that sound too good to be true, this one is false.
That's because trees don't just absorb carbon when they grow, they emit it when they die and decompose, or burn.
When you add up both the absorption and emission, Canada's forests haven't been a net carbon sink since 2001. Due largely to forest fires and insect infestations, the trees have actually added to our country's greenhouse gas emissions for each of the past 15 years on record.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-forests-carbon-sink-or-source-1.5011490Last edited by chuckChuck; Aug 9, 2023, 07:16.
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