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Science 1 April 1977:
Vol. 196. no. 4285, pp. 54 - 56
DOI: 10.1126/science.196.4285.54
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Wood Versus Fossil Fuel as a Source of Excess Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere: A Preliminary Report

J. A. S. ADAMS 1, M. S. M. MANTOVANI 1, and L. L. LUNDELL 2

1 Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 30.627, São Paulo, Brazil
2 Department of Geology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77001

If the amounts of wood consumed in deforestation to increase agricultural land and as firewood in underindustrialized countries are added to the amount consumed by the money economies as forest products, the estimates of the net amount of wood removed from the biosphere in this century should be revised upward. The per capita ratio of the weight of carbon from net wood burned to the weight of carbon from fossil fuel burned in this century has been at least 0.1 and may have approached 1.0.

Submitted on April 16, 1976
Revised on October 26, 1976


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