[editor-surveyor]

"We now always have (had) an almost inexhaustible supply of paper, building materials and firewoord."

About 10 years ago Rush Limbaugh read a paper from some high falutin' dendronologist that unequivocally stated that we have substantially more forest today than we did 200 years ago. Nothing has changed.

The article is crap anyway, since outside of the urban cores, the climate is getting cooler fast.

[beekeeper]

An interesting fact. Before every ice age there was a sharp increase in the earth's temperature before it dropped, and did so in the period of a few hundred years.

[SpottedBeaver]

...since outside of the urban cores, the climate is getting cooler fast.

Don't say that to those of us in Texas. Particularly Dallas, being an urban core. It's supposed to be around 95 degrees about this time of the year. My thermometer says 74 right now. Not that I'm complaining. I like the cooler weather.