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  1. Oh, as if, lechacal. Tell us where you got your info? Huh. Right, like you figured all that stuff out yourself. You have yet to quote your sources, jackass. And now your spouting it all off as your own ‘thoughts’. ROFL!!

    Baloney.

  2. tyburg,

    true,
    As I was eating my genetically engineered corn
    the other night paired with hormonally modified beef,
    I sang to myself over a glass of irridiated milk:

    “…what a wonderful world…”

  3. lech, stop being obtuse. Citation was requested for your theory that there would be a net carbon sequestration gain under your scenario.I now see your source…the wired article (thanks,cobble). Debunked.

    Here’s some remedial reading for you:

    “Ancient Old-Growth Forests Best Carbon Sinks” http://forests.org/archive/general/plnewfor.htm

    “Are old forests underestimated as global carbon sinks?”
    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118993329/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

    “Old growth forests are carbon sinks for centuries,”
    http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0911-forests.html

  4. All this talk of difficulties in English government formation on a RE blog put me in mind of this little song, by Leon Rosselson, although some of you may know the Billy Bragg version:

    In 1649
    To St. George’s Hill,
    A ragged band they called the Diggers
    Came to show the people’s will
    They defied the landlords
    They defied the laws
    They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs

    We come in peace they said
    To dig and sow
    We come to work the lands in common
    And to make the waste ground grow
    This earth divided
    We will make whole
    So it will be
    A common treasury for all

    The sin of property
    We do disdain
    No man has any right to buy and sell
    The earth for private gain
    By theft and murder
    They took the land
    Now everywhere the walls
    Spring up at their command

    They make the laws
    To chain us well
    The clergy dazzle us with heaven
    Or they damn us into hell
    We will not worship
    The God they serve
    The God of greed who feed the rich
    While poor folk starve

    [Google it for the remaining three verses. “The World Turn’d Upside Down”]

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