AS A MATTER OF FACT...:

Glitch Complicates Calculations of Carbon Emissions (SINDYA N. BHANOO, October 22, 2009 , NY Times)

An accounting problem in the way some greenhouse gas emissions are calculated could critically hobble efforts to reduce them in coming years as nations move to combat global warming, scientists warn in a new report.

The accounting irregularity even gives the impression that clearing the world’s forests, which absorb and thereby diminish heat-trapping carbon dioxide, is good for the climate, the scientists write in an article published Friday in the journal Science.

...NH was 90% clear cut during the time these people think climate was at its Goldilocks optimum, but now we're reforested and the polar bears are dropping like flies....

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 23, 2009 6:04 AM