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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">My blurb on the <em>Nature</em> article concerning melting permafrost passed on a misunderstanding. Joe Romm corrected me by quoting the article:</div>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%" dir="ltr"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"We calculate that permafrost thaw will release the same order of magnitude of carbon as deforestation if current rates of
deforestation continue. But <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'"><strong>because these emissions include significant quantities of methane, the overall effect on climate could be 2.5 times larger."
</strong>That is, the warming will not be 2.5 greater in a general sense, as I stated.</span></span></p>
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<p><font face="tahoma">Joe Romm's article provides much more light:</font></p>
<div dir="ltr"> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/01/379675/nature-climate-experts-thawing-permafrost-warming-of-deforestation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29">
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/01/379675/nature-climate-experts-thawing-permafrost-warming-of-deforestation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Allen</font></font></div>
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