Megan, my father and my brother are employed in the timber industry. Please feel free to use paper because it puts food on their tables and will hopefully send my darling nephew and niece to college one day. Trees are renewable resources and those who sell timber to the paper company plant baby trees immediately afterward. If people stop using paper, they will plant something else that will result in less habitat for wildlife. Banning production of paper nationwide would be a terrible thing for wildlife for this reason, but in both cases the impact on global warming is insignificant because something else will be planted on these large properties.

Deforestation is a problem to be sure, but commercial and residential development is the culprit, along with farming, not the paper industry. There is no way to stop urban sprawl because our elected officials will not say no to the next Wal-mart, Lowes, strip mall, etc. and people need somewhere to live.

Global warming is happening. It is not caused by carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide fluctuates with global temperature change because our oceans hold greater quantities of suspended carbon dioxide when they are cooler (just like a cold can of soda goes flat at a slower pace than a hot can of soda). When the oceans heat up, they release carbon dioxide in greater quantities. When they cool they absorb more.

We all know it's a hoax deep down, but there are so many misconceptions. I bet the same people that would say we didn't really go to the moon are saying that the debate on man-made global warming is over. There is no such thing as scientific concensus, especially when the United Nations is involved.

Think people!