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To: Road Walker who wrote (4890)	6/10/2008 5:03:52 AM
From: The Vet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16955

John, Acid rain was a real problem where the damage could be observed and measured. The improvements in the environment by reduction of acid rain were real and obvious. The same thing cannot be said of CO2 release which occurs naturally all the time from a variety of sources including breathing, plants (at night, decomposition of almost all organic matter, forest fires, volcanoes etc. The amount coming directly from human burning of fossil fuels is just a minute fraction of the total produced continuously by these natural processes. Simply putting out all of the uncontrolled underground coal fires in the USA and China, would cut fossil fuel generated CO2 releases by a huge proportion. Add forest fires and you will find that those uncontrolled sources release more CO2 than all the cars on the road world wide. You might notice that 99% of all TV news reports and pictures that support the CO2 mantra, all show graphic pictures of power station cooling towers, belching out clouds of STEAM.. Yep, good old H2O, and those cooling towers don't put a single gramme of extra CO2 into the atmosphere; just plain, pure water! The reason is of course that the clouds of water vapour and droplets look very impressive; all part of the "spin" to convince the public that something bad is going into the air they breath when in fact they are no more harmful than clouds....