www.independent.co.uk
and was based on a Brit Channel 4 tv programme.
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of magellan
> Sent: 17 June 2001 22:54
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: The Independent:Methane threatens to repeat Ice Age
> meltdown
>
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>
>
> --Original message__
>
> 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
>
> ...................................................
>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
>
>
> 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...
>
>
>