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- From: yaros@sab57.larc.nasa.gov (Steve Yaros)
- Subject: Re: Forests Increasing
- Message-ID: <Bs1wyq.9y8@news.larc.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: In article <1992Jul26.155021.5760@ddsw1.mcs.com>, arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) writes:
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- References: <BrwK0r.9w4@news.larc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul26.155021.5760@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:16:01 GMT
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- |>
- |> It may very well be true but the reason it will not be on
- |> the front page of the NYT is that it is not news, it is
- |> Conservative disinformation.
- |>
- |> The absolute number of trees or acres of forest have little
- |> to do with either global warming or biodiversity.
- |>
- |> The "forests" that are increasing are tree farms. They are
- |> nothing but tall corn fields that are replacing ancient
- |> trees of wide diversity and skyscraping heights with fast
- |> growing pine trees that are cut as soon as they get to a
- |> commercial length.
- |>
- |> In a typical tropical forest, there are over 100 DIFFERENT
- |>
- ...and on and on. The point of the article, which appeared in a quite-non-
- conservative (read their editorials sometime) concerned alleged global warming
- and the effects of forests in North America, Europe, and the former Soviet
- Union. Your lashing out at disinformation (on what basis, pray tell?), lack of
- biodiversity, the height of trees on tree farms, and what's happening in
- the tropics is irrelevant, in some cases untrue, and in others just your
- opinion. Read the article in full. Comment on what it says and not other
- agenda you may have in mind.
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- yaros@sab57.nasa.larc.gov | people's souls would scarcely get your feet wet...
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