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  Agreed.

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  This is from the Greenpeace Intl website:  "Thirty percent of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere over the past 150 years is thought to come from deforestation, but this is a small amount compared to what is still stored in forests. The Canadian and Russian boreal forests alone hold 40 percent of the world's carbon stocks."   If those figures are anywhere close to accurate, it's clear that, as you state, halting deforestation is a necessary part of the solution.   Here's that Greenpeace page: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/science/deforestation

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  Thanks, Ken. Maybe I need to wait until your next post, but I have a question about the solution: "....halt exploration for new fossil fuel deposits and cap extractions at 1/4 of known reserves." Am I right in saying this is only one of the necessary solutions----i.e. it doesn't get at the problem of deforestation, another major source of GW pollution? That is, theoretically, even if we halt new fossil fuel exploration & cap extractions at 1/4 of known reserves, we could still increase temp by more than 2 C if we don't also reign in deforestation?

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