Biofuels worsen climate change, scientific study concludes
The expansion of crops to produce biofuels results in vast amounts of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere and it doesn’t contribute to stopping climate change or global warming, according to the first thorough scientific audit of a biofuel’s carbon budget.
Scientists have produced evidence that suggests that biofuels could be one of the biggest environmental lies, because they could worsen global warming by increasing the emissions of carbon dioxide that are supposed to decrease.
Two separate studies, published in the journal Science, show that the crops to produce “green” alternatives to oil-based fossil fuels emit much more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and all these emissions cannot be absorbed by the plants.
The scientists discovered that, in the case of some crops, it would take several centuries to pay off the “carbon debt” that is generated. These environmental costs don’t take into account other damages to the environment, for example the loss of biodiversity that is caused when a forest area is used for biofuels production.
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