[Blood of Tyrants]

I has long been established that raising the CO₂ levels will cause significant increases in the rate of plant growth. The global warming chicken littles somehow conveniently forgot this point.

[jwalburg]

Amazon rain forests accounted for nearly half the increase seen globally over the 20-year period.

Oh, that's a relief. Now I won't have to keep buying shade-grown coffee!"

[Only1choice____Freedom]

You mean to tell me the Earth adjusts to changes?

That really IS news. (for some people)

[FreeTheHostages]

of course plants are a "sink" for CO2

so is the ocean

the unknown question is the capacity of these sinks

global warming from manmade causes is a *fact* -- a matter of general scientific agreement -- and we shouldn't be debating whether it exists with the Rats

rather we should be discussing what the conservative response to this fact is: market solutions rather than government-made solutions

[The Great RJ]

There is a very interesting book recently published that has exactly recreated scenes photographed on Custer's 1875 expedition to the Black Hills of South Dakota with their modern day view. What is striking in the 1875 photos is the general lack of forests compared to the lush forests in contemporary views. Extinguishing forest fires and extensive tree planting has vastly increased forestation in this part of the world.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.

[SpaceBar]

I invite readers to attempt to glean any hard factual evidence cited in the article that makes a definite causal connection between their observations and conclusions. The article boasts in several places about what "some scientists believe" which are buzz words for the pseudo-scientific left wing fringe of the scientific community. Fact is, most rigorously trained qualified scientists familiar with the subject generally agree that man's fingerprint on the biosphere is nary a trifle when compared to other natural processes. Not to mention other complications such as chaos theory, noise and sampling theory, long term trends, unknown variables or relationships, the list goes on. The moral is that to an unsuspecting and unchallenging public at large, you can sell them the Brooklyn Bridge quite easily.

[Coleus]

bttt

[mtbopfuyn]

Yeah, well there's still the problem with all those farting cows blowing holes in the ozone?

[Junior]

Peter N. Spotts

Sounds like a particularly busy fellow, or one with a major problem "on his hands."

[Fzob]

"That was a big surprise," says Ranga Myneni, a botanist at Boston University and a member of the research team. Amazon rain forests accounted for nearly half the increase seen globally over the 20-year period.

What is this??????. The rain forests are GROWING in size. Not possible, as the environwennies have been moaning for years about how the rain forest was on the verge of becoming a desert. I know it's true because I've seen bumper stickers urging me to save the rain forrest.

[lepton]

The 1997 Kyoto Protocols - a first step at trying to reduce emissions and so moderate the change - permits countries to use the carbon-absorbing capacity of their forests and farmlands as credits against their emissions targets.

Mr. Author, are you sure about that? That was a proposal, but wasn't it shot down?

[P.O.E.]

Notice how they stopped calling it the "greenhouse effect" and started calling it "global warming", to make it sound big and scary instead of benevolent.