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To: maceng2 who wrote (17314)	11/11/2007 11:57:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 36921

PB, the bacteria stripped out the methane. In a similar way, for eons, living things have been stripping out carbon via sucking in CO2 and burying it in limestone, coal, shale, tar sands [Orinoco, Athabasca], oil and gas. The ice age is a replay of that early time. We are currently in an interglacial, but not for long. We might prevent a return to ice with the current major efforts to recycle carbon into the atmosphere, but I think human efforts will be too puny to prevent the continuation into snowball Earth configuration. Look at all the limestone! A minuscule bit of it is being used for concrete, but the proportion of buried carbon being recycled by humans is tiny. As our achievement is stripped from the atmosphere and dumped back on the bottom of the ocean for tectonic processes to cart it back to subduction zones, we will find ourselves with a freezing climate and no easy oil and gas to use to put more CO2 into the air to keep it warm. We will probably have to produce billions of tons of soot and spread it over deserts to keep the place warm. Rain will probably end that attempt to keep suicidal Gaia going. Mqurice

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