Big Green: Decarbonising heat

[Barrie Moore]

The British Government is looking for ways to decarbonise heat and 
has prepared a tome inviting responses to a list of questions. 
www.dti.gov.uk/energy/sources/heat/page43671.html click on Heat call 
for evidence.
Noting postings here on carbon content I have the following comments. 
Burning fuels causes global warming and biofuels are no exception. 
We are part of the carbon cycle and symbiotically exist with plants 
in gaseous exchange. Elevating temperatures systematically beyond 
evolved biological requirements causes global warming. We have to 
learn to live with the ecosystem we have evolved with. The farming 
lobby will adapt to the market for fuels and trees might not figure 
as the climax vegetation for an area where commerce and human beings 
take over. FSC seeks to regulate that and the Government's call is 
similarly an impending regulatory regime to phase out fossil fuels. 
Part of that agenda is security of supply and the robustness of 
trading arrangements. Architects are at the spearhead of this 
revolution and should be seeking to decarbonise heat in buildings. My 
perception is that cutting down trees or delivering biofuels to 
cities is more of the same and will add to global warming.
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