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To: Ilaine who wrote (17265)	4/28/2006 9:21:31 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541428

but is the world suffering from an excess of CO2? The Earth's atmosphere is made up of a blanket of gases, which trap enough heat to sustain life. However, by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests humans, since the beginning of the industrial revolution, pump billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. Once in the atmosphere, the CO2 stays in the atmosphere for several hundred years. There is consensus in the scientific community that this adds to global warming. Just how much it adds to global warming is in debate. If it is adding 1 degree fahrenheit to average temperature, then your grand children do not have to worry about raising children to form a family unit. If your neighbor adds a few hundred pounds of CO2, driving their SUVs, into the atmosphere each year may not seem like much, but a few million SUV's here and there, pretty soon it adds up to some serious CO2 emmissions released unnecessarily into the atmosphere. It may or may not contribute to the end of civilization as we know it, but I can't see where it would do any good.