To: Old Professer
An assessment of the likely increase of CO2 in the atmosphere due to climate change and if the Amazon Rainforest ceases to be a CO2 sink. Except that the Amazon rain-forest seems fairly carbon neutral, and the discounted temperate forests are the ones eating large amounts of Carbon.
And then there's the oceans...
62 posted on
06/28/2006 11:13:28 AM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
Well, I merely passed this along; the Rain Forest nee Jungle is totemic in environmental circles and often factors heavily in all emotionally-laden discussions and polemics.
65 posted on
06/28/2006 11:44:46 AM PDT by
Old Professer
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