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Re: Climate change and human connections

Subject: Re: Climate change and human connections
From: "Bruce Wilson" bruceumba
Date: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:11 pm ((PST))
While it's fun to compare the current CO2 level to that of the ice ages
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon_Dioxide_400kyr.png), have a look at
the levels when life really did well on the planet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phanerozoic_Carbon_Dioxide.png

We're never going to get that high again. Too much coal and oil need burning
to get there.

Bruce




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