DAM!

Who'd have thought it? Dams are killing the planet, or at least making a major contribution to global warming. So says a  Berkeley, California, based environmental group which claims that dams all around the world are adding to global warming

"International Rivers Network executive director Patrick McCully today told Brisbane's Riversymposium rotting vegetation and fish found in dams produced surprising amounts of methane - 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide. "Often it's accepted that hydropower is a climate friendly technology but in fact probably all reservoirs around the world emit greenhouse gases and some of them, especially some of the ones in the tropics, emit very high quantities of greenhouse gases even comparable to, in some cases even much worse than, fossil fuels like coal and gas.  Basically they're factories for converting carbon into methane and methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas - it's less known than carbon dioxide but it's actually about 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere."

So Nuclear power is out, hydropower is out - we're on the way back to the Stone Age folks - if we listen to extreme greenies!

Comments

[James Aach]

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[The Cynical Libertarian]

"So says a Berkeley, California, based"

Moonbats? At Berkeley? Never!