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...flow of CO2 on earth was caused by only natural processes until less than 200 years ago. With the arrival of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s, man suddenly threw a new factor into the climatic equation. Carbon dioxide is released in large quantities when wood and such fossil fuels as coal, oil and natural gas are burned. As society industrialized, coal- burning factories began releasing CO2 faster than plants and oceans, which absorb the gas, could handle it. In the early 1900s, people began burning oil and gas at prodigious rates. And increasing population led to the widespread...
Tree planting will have negligible impact, however, if people continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere at current rates. While wood and fossil-fuel burning will never be eliminated, they can be cut down significantly. An immediate way to do so is through conservation. When oil prices soared in the 1970s, industries responded by becoming much more energy efficient. But the plunge in the price of oil from $36 per bbl. in 1982 to less than $12 per bbl. this fall has cooled the enthusiasm for conservation. Governments must rekindle that interest and boost energy saving by setting or raising...
HOTTEST RESTAURANT DESIGNER Suave, clubby dining rooms with mellow wood- paneled walls, glistening brass and a glowing wash of light are trademarks of the year's most popular restaurant architect, Adam Tihany. He is responsible for the quietly formal Huberts and Metro in Manhattan, and Bice, which will also open in Los Angeles and Chicago next year...
...family in the U.S. For lagniappe, he bears a striking resemblance to Gary Cooper. The boy's only protector is a supermarksman out of Ghostbusters. Miquel is the sort of fellow who can shoot out the eye of a fly at 100 paces and vanish at will into a wood or a city, beyond the reach of ordinary humans...
...certainly pays to recycle. From 100,000 tons of typical Japanese garbage comes enough wood pulp to make a roll of toilet paper that would wrap around the earth ten times...