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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wait a minute! Don’t trees produce CO2, and isn’t CO2 a “greenhouse” gas? If so, it seems that cutting down trees would be a good thing.....


19 posted on 08/19/2009 4:55:42 PM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: SuzyQue

Actually, trees (and other plants) take in CO2 and give off oxygen.


22 posted on 08/19/2009 5:57:13 PM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: SuzyQue

Trees take in CO2 when alive and release CO@ when they are rotting dead.


23 posted on 08/19/2009 6:15:48 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (di tray hoi den La Vang)
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