Although constantly taunted by Al Gore and others for suggesting mankind be cautious when dealing with global warming issues instead of simply joining the mob, things just keep popping up to reinforce the cautious side.  Here’s the latest:

Only a few years ago, oil from palm trees was viewed as an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to petroleum that would fight global warming. Energy companies began converting generators and production soared…..

The report issued late last year by Wetlands International, Delft Hydraulics and the Alterra Research Center of Wageningen University in Holland studied the carbon released from peat swamps in Indonesia and Malaysia that had been drained and burned to plant palm oil trees. About 85 percent of the world’s palm oil comes from the two countries, and about one-quarter of Indonesia’s plantations are on drained peat bogs, the report said.

The four-year study found that 600 million tons of carbon dioxide seep into the air each year from the drained swamps. Another 1.4 billion tons go up in smoke from fires lit to clear rain forest for plantations — smoke that often shrouds Singapore and Malaysia in an impenetrable haze for weeks at a time.

Together, those 2 billion tons of CO2 account for 8 percent of the world’s fossil fuel emissions, the report said.

So, because people rushed to a conclusion and didn’t think things out at all before coming to that conclusion, we’ve now got a much worse situation than we had before.  That’s my main concern that I have argued about the overzealousness of the gobal warming proponents.  Now, I’m just as sure that because I have noted this, Al Gore and others will assert I believe in UFO’s and a flat Earth.  But I’ll bet it will take a hell of a lot longer to fix the damage done in Indonesia and Malaysia than how long I’ll worry about the global warming proponents’ taunting me with bad insults.