(BTW, clearcut burns put *a lot* of smoke into the air, contributing to the problem of global warming. See also "Yet More Gualala Pics", e.g. -- "Every time you put a single carbon dioxide molecule into the atmosphere, it stays there for 900 to 1,000 years or so." -- Warren Washington, climatologist)
Full text of article: Earth's temperatures heating up
See also: Professor Stephen H. Schneider, Climatologist, Stanford University
Averages to rise 8 degrees by end of century, climate scientist says
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Monday, February 17, 2003
"Denver -- A leading government climate scientist predicted here Sunday that average temperatures around the world will rise by as much as 7 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit before the end of this century -- a major climate change that could affect widespread crop fertility and the economies of many industrial nations.
The senior scientist did not take sides on the current conflict between the United States and the rest of the industrialized world over mandatory control of so-called greenhouse gases called for by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which the Bush administration strongly opposes.
But he did contend it is obvious by now that corporate leaders of U.S. industries and power plants need to be making serious efforts to curtail their emissions of the heat-trapping gases -- principally carbon dioxide -- that are affecting climate.
Warren Washington, chief of the Climate Change Research Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., offered his long- range forecast here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where climatologists and physicists are discussing the various computer models they have created to explain past climate changes and the forecast for the near-term future... "
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