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(Ashwani Vasishth) writes:

>I do not know where the above "fact" comes from, but it
>is simply not the case.  Volcanoes DO put out huge amounts of 
>chlorine, but this is not at all the same thing as Chlorofluorocarbons.
>Good science (as opposed to "real" science) requires that we
>go beyond the questions of what and how much.  It is chlorine,
>it is one heck of a lot, but this does not speak to the where and
>the when.  Lifetimes and fates are particularly significant in
>atmospheric processes.  As I understand it,

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As you understand it?  In other words, you could well be wrong.

>>"Saving the enviornment is simply their excuse.  If the "greens" like the 
>>dense forrests, well, then, they'll find some psuedo-scientists that will help
>>make them look good when they say "We must leave the forrests alone."  
>>They don't care about the enviornment, nor have they really studided 
>>the situation, or else they would have known that 
>>leaving the forrest as it was would lead to the biggest fires 
>>seen in modern history, doing far more damage than logging 
>>or any other activity could have done in one or 2 hundred years.
>>

>There can be no question that California is a fire ecology.  Not
>only are fires inevitable here, but (some) vegetation REQUIRES fire
>to propagate. 

I was talking about the fires which plagued Washington and Oregon and Northern 
CA this year.  Forrests that were doing quite well until burned to the ground 
due to ignorance and personal preference.
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