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To: voletti
While I do not subscribe to the usual global warming hype, I am gravely concerned about anthropogenic damage to the Amazon basin. Huge areas are affected/ruined/altered 'forever' by irresponsible farming actions.

WE should be more worried about this than whether or not Palestinians have a homeland.
5 posted on 07/24/2006 4:48:40 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: Blueflag

Now this is bad science ...

"“When Dr Dan Nepstead started the experiment in 2002 – by covering a chunk of rainforest the size of a football pitch with plastic panels to see how it would cope without rain – he surrounded it with sophisticated sensors, expecting to record only minor changes,” The Independent reports.

“The trees managed the first year of drought without difficulty. In the second year, they sunk their roots deeper to find moisture, but survived. But in year three, they started dying. Beginning with the tallest the trees started to come crashing down, exposing the forest floor to the drying sun.

By the end of the year the trees had released more than two-thirds of the carbon dioxide they have stored during their lives, helping to act as a break on global warming. Instead they began accelerating the climate change.”


6 posted on 07/24/2006 4:49:53 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: Blueflag
E should be more worried about this than whether or not Palestinians have a homeland.

Here here!

Alas, there are an awful lot of fiddle players out there on the world stage.

7 posted on 07/24/2006 4:51:48 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength)
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