Hydroelectric dams in Brazilian Amazonia: response to Rosa, Schaeffer & dos Santos
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation
- Vol. 23 (2) , 105-108
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900038467
Abstract
In a critique of my paper on ‘greenhouse’ gas (GHG) emissions from Amazonian reservoirs (Fearnside 1995), Rosa et al. (1996) suggest that I have reached overly pessimistic conclusions because the reservoirs on which my calculations are based are unrepresentative and because methods based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) global warming potentials (GWPs) are unfair for comparing hydroelectric and fossil fuel options. I rush to defend my analysis.Keywords
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