About 18 percent of all human - made carbon dioxide emissions — or nearly 8.5 billion tons each year — comes from the burning of forests, savannahs
and wood chips for fuel, said
Mark Jacobson, a
civil and environmental engineering professor at Stanford
and the study's main author.
Thomas Homer - Dixon Trudeau Center for Peace
and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto Feng Hsu Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Mark Jacobson
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University David Keith Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment
and Economy, University of Calgary Geoffrey Landis Glenn Research Center, NASA Jane C. S. Long hydrogeologist
and geotechnical
engineer Michael MacCracken Climate Institute, Washington, DC John C. Mankins Sunsat Energy Council / Managed Energy Technologies Michael E. Mann Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University Gregg Marland International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Mark Nelson Institute of Ecotechnics, Santa Fe, NM Darel Preble Space Solar Power Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Gregory H. Rau Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Steve Rayner Said Business School, Oxford, UK Kim Stanley Robinson Author, «Forty Signs of Rain» Gregory Dennis Sachs Alternative Power Program, US Merchant Marine Academy Thomas Schelling (Nobel laureate) Department of Economics, University of Maryland Michael Schlesinger Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Steven E. Schwartz Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Energy John Turner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy Tyler Volk Department of Biology, New York University Tom M. L. Wigley National Center for Atmospheric Research Steven C. Wofsy School of Engineering
and Applied Science / Department of Earth
and Planetary Science, Harvard University Lowell Wood Hoover Institution / Stanford University
«It's absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil — we think it's a myth,» said
Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of
civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.
For the past 24 years,
Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of
civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has been developing a complex computer model to study air pollution, energy, weather
and climate.
A team led by Stanford
civil and environmental engineering professor
Mark Z. Jacobson has projected the growth in energy demands through 2050,
and then calculated exactly how those needs can be supplied using only renewables, based on which renewable sources of energy are most feasible in the various States.