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Article: Study says more carbon dioxide may help forests
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- Jerusalem Post
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- May 12, 2003
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Headline: Study says more carbon dioxide may help forests
Byline: JUDY SIEGEL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 04
Monday, May 12, 2003 -- Scientists have been scratching their heads
for years about seven billion tons of carbon dioxide missing each
year from the atmosphere. Industry releases about 22 billion tons
of this "greenhouse gas" - implicated in global warming - into the
atmosphere annually. Measuring the rise of carbon dioxide levels in
the atmosphere and factoring in the amount that could be soaked up
by the oceans, they believe that about half of the expected amount
is unaccounted for.
Now a study conducted at the edge of the Negev has come up ...