[Timocrat]

A US-Brazilian team has found that some parts of the Amazon rain forest emit more carbon dioxide (CO2) than they absorb in very wet conditions.

You mean Ronald Reagan was right.

[Jackson Brown]

You mean Ronald Reagan was right.

I'm not aware of what Reagan said, but a WHOLE lot of what people have been screaming about (that has become the basis for a lot of Kyoto) is extremely flawed -- even before Kyoto became THE issue.

OLD GROWTH FORESTS, especially rain forests, are at best CO2 neutral. They are great to have, but don't use them as the basis to prove anything about being the "planets lungs".

FAR More oxygen is given off from the plankton in the oceans than forests...period.

New growth forests -- if managed right (like those planted by lumber/paper companies) -- give off far more O2 than old growth.