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Wonderful carbon dioxide

RELAX. Don’t do it. Don’t cut carbon dioxide, it’s good for the planet. This must be true: it says so in the respected Financial Post newspaper in Canada, no longer owned by Conrad Black.

Lawrence Solomon, described as “executive director of Energy Probe and author of The Deniers“, writes in the Post (7 June) that “Planet Earth is on a roll! GPP [gross primary production] is way up. NPP [net primary production] is way up… Biomass is booming. The planet is the greenest it’s been in decades, perhaps in centuries.”

“The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani…

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