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To: carranza2 who wrote (18099)	5/9/2006 3:29:18 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 543108

That lecture link I posted is a good one, I think. I recommend it. The fellow who sent it to me is a gung ho type, currently at EPA, but I found it pretty realistic. He offered it as an example of mainstream thinking and I thought it fair. (Sent him a list of what complaints I had in that regard.) It addressed all your questions, sort of. But, while it offered various options for mitigation and adaptation, there was nothing about what combination of options, if any, would be enough to do the trick. Seems to me that if they can model the effects of global warming, then they should be able to model various solutions. I'd like to see a complete package rather than pursue various courses without having some idea of how much difference they might make. The only point he made that addressed marginal improvement was regarding planting trees--we could counter about a fifth of our greenhouse gas problem with trees, no more. But he didn't elaborate on what assumptions about trees produced that figure. My friend's latest kick is to make air travel carbon neutral. He's trying to set up a program.