On 2 Des, 23:57, Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacob...@ieee.org> wrote:
> On 12/2/2009 3:13 PM, Rune Allnor wrote:
>
> > There are far fewer large mammals in the world
> > today than only a couple of centuries ago. These emissions
> > are lost in the balance, and counter significant parts
> > of the CO2 emissions.
>
> Plus the comparison to other natural sources like volcanoes, forest
> fires, etc., and how those compare today to past history for typical
> contributions of CO2 emissions. *

Forest fires are, contrary to popular belief, an integral
part of the nature, and not the disasters people like to
believe them to be: A lot of plants and creatures depend on
wildfires to proliferate and even reproduce. The problem
with the wildfires in the western US and eastern Australia
is not that it burns - tehre have always been wildfires - but
that those areas have been heavily populated by people.
People only setteled in these areas over the past couple
of centuries.

Rune