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To: LindyBill who wrote (139964)	9/22/2005 8:03:50 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793974

My points are the following: 1.- We don't necessarily know the cause to a scientific certainty, but we do know that there has been global warming in the Northern Hemisphere of about one degree F in the last century or so. 2.- CO2 seems to be implicated; burning of fossil fuels and deforestation are probably part of the reason CO2 may be higher than is historically the case. 3.- From a policy and national security standpoint, it makes a lot of sense to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. This will reduce CO2 but most of it is now in the atmosphere and will not be naturally processed for many decades. 4.- A technological effort to advance the CO2 capture process is probably a good idea despite the lack of scientific certainty that CO2 is implicated. Supporting data is too strong to take a chance on being wrong on the issue because if ignored global warming will become much more severe with a huge impact on all of us.