{"id":16235,"date":"2018-04-26T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2018-04-26T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:42:22","slug":"president-trumps-epa-says-burning-wood-is-carbon-neutral-like-wind-and-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/president-trumps-epa-says-burning-wood-is-carbon-neutral-like-wind-and-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump’s EPA Says Burning Wood is Carbon Neutral, Like Wind and Solar Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Believe it or not, there’s some merit to the argument. A tree removes CO2 from the atmosphere during it’s entire lifetime, so when you cut it down and burn it, you are returning that carbon to the atmosphere. Does it balance out? Who knows. For all we know trees may remove more CO2 over their lifetime than created by burning.
\nBut wouldn’t the Earth be better served at this point, where we are trying to reduce atmospheric CO2, by having trees continue to remove CO2 rather than add it back?<\/p>\n

The Article ‘President Trump’s EPA Says Burning Wood is Carbon Neutral, Like Wind and Solar Energy’ originally appeared on https:\/\/droolindognews.blogspot.com\/2018\/04\/president-trumps-epa-says-burning-wood.html<\/a>
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Believe it or not, there’s some merit to the argument. A tree removes CO2 from the atmosphere during it’s entire lifetime, so when you cut it down and burn it, you are returning that carbon to the atmosphere. Does it balance out? Who knows. For all we know trees may remove more CO2 over their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16285,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/methane-climate-change-and-our-uncertain-future-eos\/","url_meta":{"origin":16235,"position":0},"title":"Methane, Climate Change, and Our Uncertain Future – Eos","date":"May 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you know that animal farts and landfills are a bigger problem than burning carbon fuels? 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