A recent programme on British television entitled "The Day the Oceans Boiled" gave a frightening picture as the knife edge the world's temperature is balanced on. Apparently the Aamzon basin is sucking up something like 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year which is half of what is produced yearly. This depends on the existence of the rain-forest. Should the forest be affected, as in a less rain, then all that carbon will be released and blooey - temperature increases by up to 10 degrees. Goodbye human and other life.