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Being a subscriber to Salon, a publication I respect, please stop with equating "carbon" to CO2. Hell, if carbon was what was in the upper atmosphere, in the form of soot, it would actually help fight global warming by blocking sunlight from reaching the surface of terra firma. It's not like that is going to happen anytime soon, though. Is it too hard to write "carbon dioxide?"
To repeat. It's not "carbon" that's causing the global warming problem. The problem is caused by CO2, one of the gasses released by burning fossil fuels that used to be sequestered for a very long time under the ground in the form of hydrocarbons. Burning up a tree releases much "younger" CO2 that for the most part, can't be blamed for an upset in the balance of gasses in the atmosphere.
Good article otherwise.
