Mark Jones wrote:
> the article was in today's Indie:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --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...
> >
> >
> >
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Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901