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...then so is the whole country. Greener-than-thou presidential candidate John Edwards justifies his 28,000 foot mega-mansion:

The March 20 edition of CNN?s ?American Morning? showed Edwards hyping global warming, promoting his energy plan that mandates carbon caps and claiming that his new mega-McMansion was actually being operated in a ?carbon-neutral way.? He has recently declared his campaign ?carbon neutral.?

Okay, let's take him at his word. But then America itself should be let off the global warming hook. According to a paper published in the journal Science -- "A Large Terrestrial Carbon Sink in North America Implied by Atmospheric and Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Data and Models," by S. Fan, M. Gloor, J. Mahlman, S. Pacala, J. Sarmiento, T. Takahashi, P. Tans -- the North American continent is better than carbon neutral -- it's a net carbon sink.

The spatial distribution of the terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake is estimated by means of the observed spatial patterns of the greatly increased atmospheric carbon dioxide data set available from 1988 onward, together with two atmospheric transport models, two estimates of the sea-air flux, and an estimate of the spatial distribution of fossil carbon dioxide emissions. North America is the best constrained continent, with a mean uptake of 1.7 ? 0.5 Pg C year...mostly south of 51 degrees north.

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