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To: Sharp_End_Of_Drill who wrote (92937)	8/2/2001 8:55:44 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Limiting the discussion to reducing CO2, as you note, is very simplistic and fails to get at other problems that are even more severe. I try to keep up on developments in this area by reading articles published in Science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which I've been a member for 25 years. Recent research suggests that the ability of the oceans to absorb CO2 is less than what had been expected earlier, and that the result appears to be a greater concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, for whatever reason. Thus, there is some scientific basis to claim that an increasing amount of CO2 is not being processed by plants or being absorbed in the ocean. It is not clear what the solution might be, but it is certainly clear that more fossil fuel is being burned today than 100 years ago. Art