On 24 Jul 2006 14:04:59 -0700, "
wrote, or quoted, in part:

Studies by the blue-chip Woods Hole Research Centre, carried out
in Amazonia, have concluded that the forest cannot withstand more
than two consecutive years of drought without breaking down.

My first response to such a claim would be:

Evidently, you must have forgotten to read to the part of the study
which explains why, in all the years the Amazon rain forest has existed
in the past, two consecutive years of drought have not happened there,
and it is not a desert already.

But the lowering of the river level was unprecedented, and the cause is
in novel human action - logging of the Amazon. Perhaps the Amazon is
that fragile. Certainly, I *am* worried about the peat bogs in Russia.

I just don't understand why we haven't switched over to nuclear power
already. It would kill two birds with one stone.

Reduce contributions to global warming - and stop money from getting to
terrorists.

If nobody needed to buy any Middle East oil, we wouldn't have as much
fighting to do in Iraq.

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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