The Independent:Methane threatens to repeat Ice Age meltdown

magellan magellan at west.com.br
Sun Jun 17 14:53:42 PDT 2001


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From: "Mark Jones" <jones118 at lineone.net> To: "Lbo-Talk Subject: The Independent:Methane threatens to repeat Ice Age meltdown Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001

55 million years ago, a massive blast of gas drove up Earth's temperature 7C. And another explosion is on the cards, say experts

By David Keys

16 June 2001

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>Four Brazilian biologists, led by Dr Antonio Nobre of Brazil's National
>Institute for the Study of the Amazon, have made the surprising discovery
>that the Amazon jungle has been substantially increasing its biomass in
>response to human CO2 emissions.
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>In other words, the Amazon is reducing the rate of global warming's
>acceleration much more than science has hitherto believed. So if the jungle
>disappears ­ and climatologists warn that could occur between the years 2050
>and 2100 ­ its disappearance would have an even more detrimental effect than
>previously thought.
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Dear Mark:

Please, tell us what is the source of this impressing article.

Secondly, I see an incoherence in saying "that the Amazon jungle has been substantially increasing its biomass in response to human CO2 emissions" and at the same time prophetising that the jungle could "disappears ..... between the years 2050 and 2100". What do you think about? --since you are a well known reasearcher on the themes about the relationship bertween ecology and society.

Best regards, R. Magellan

PS: By the way, this year springtime in Southern Hemisphere has been rather summertime... By another side, in the first summer day of 2000 it snowed in Southern Brazil...



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