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lofdahl@horton.Colorado.EDU (cl lofdahl) writes:

>What I hope to
>do is link these rates to global economic growth and trade
>rates in anticipation of a negative linkage (i.e., more growth
>leads to fewer trees).

It is a given that the global economy has been increasing while at the
same time deforestation has also increased. How exactly are you going
to LINK these two phenomena?

When 2 variables are changing in a constant direction during the same time
are they therefore  necessarily LINKED?

Frank

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