From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec3b1a84cab8fc8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-10 07:35:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B970152.4AC6C6E3@PublicPropertySoftware.com> <3B9795E1.54B12E70@worldnet.att.net> <9n882d$rsh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B97C5D4.2AFBAEDF@san.rr.com> <3B97EEC5.B9109D9F@san.rr.com> <3B9A4CA7.A3231B1F@home.com> Subject: Re: Off Topic: NMD/Environment was: (Re: Ada and the NMD) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:35:11 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:35:11 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12985 Date: 2001-09-10T14:35:11+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B9A4CA7.A3231B1F@home.com>, Larry Elmore says... > >The fact is, there is a great deal more land under forest in America now >than there was 100 years ago. Nor was much of the continent a primeval >see: > http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/usfscoll/landscapes.htm > http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/usfscoll/AmIndian.htm Neither of these links say that. They do make the point that we have a lot more dense undergrowth now that people (read-non indians who now control the land) aren't doing regular burns, and that some places that were savannahs are now forest. Both are valid points. But neither addresses in any quantative sense are our current state of forest cover vs. what was here. But again, its all a red herring anyway. Whatever there is or was has *nothing* to do with our CO2 output. It was all here (a bit more or less) happily converting CO2 long before the fist US factory was built. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com