By Here is some more global warming nonsense for everyone, this time coming from Korea:
A state-run institute says forest fires release large amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen global warming.
The Korea Forest Research Institute said Tuesday that a recent fire on Mount Baekun in North Gyeongsang Province burned 825-thousand square meters of forest. It said the April 6th fire emitted around 15-thousand tons of carbon dioxide.
The institute added that since 2000, wildfires in South Korea have released one-point-five million tons of carbon dioxide each year. This is roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide given off by 190-thousand vehicles in a year. [KBS Global]
Gees what rocket scientist figured out that a forest fire releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air? They should put this guy in for Nobel Prize for science. The next thing you know some scientist will make the discovery that volcanoes release carbon dioxide into the air as well. Wouldn’t that be a discovery?
9:29 pm on April 14th, 2009 1
GI, I know you don't take ecological issues seriously… but not all eco-research in Korea can be ridiculed.
Recently, it was determined that clouds in Korea, some of which are formed over pollution-filled manufacturing centers in China, contain a large amount of concentrated hydrogen hydroxide.
You are probably familiar with this terrible chemical from Styrofoam production and the processing of heavy metals. There are cases of a SINGLE inhalation of concentrated hydrogen hydroxide causing rapid death.
Of course global warming research gets a lot more attention than a chemical which has been repeatedly found in excised cancerous tumors and miscarriages throughout Korea.
And, as usual, USFK concentrates on curfew violations and the dangers of alcohol when hydrogen hydroxide exposure has killed many more people. That is scientific fact.
Further, USFK has made absolutely no effort at training on hydrogen hydroxide avoidance or developing a program of exposure management… even with lengthened and accompanied tours.
American babies coming to Korea are going to be drenched in this stuff and nobody cares.
I doubt they are even fully aware of the issue.
3:44 am on April 15th, 2009 2
Hydrogen hydroxide distribution is controlled by a number of government agencies in Korea, but companies continue to use and dispose of it carelessly. In fact I believe at one time it was used as a flavoring agent in Korean beer.
6:49 am on April 15th, 2009 3
CH you are bringing up a real environmental issue instead of the politically motivated global warming scaremongering. The biggest environmental issue for Korea and northeast Asia in general is the yellow dust caused by a real man made environmental disaster in China with the overgrazing and farming in the Gobi Desert. While all this time and energy is wasted on global warming that isn’t happening the yellow dust gets worse and worse every year. This year a yellow dust storm hit Korea in February.
6:44 am on April 15th, 2009 4
I wonder if someone is going to pass on this study to the state of California? They have forest fires there just about every year and nobody ever says anything about the amount of carbon dixoide that is released.
10:40 am on April 15th, 2009 5
Do you know Carbon Dioxide?
Did you know it was invented in Korea?
C02 ??????!!!!!
7:05 am on April 16th, 2009 6
It was invented in North Korea, anyone that reads the Pyongyang Times, knows the DPRK has the worlds best scientists. Besides, the DPRK invented the superconductor. /sarc