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To: Alomex who wrote (164554)	7/25/2001 8:47:46 PM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

>>Quite possibly correct, but of no relevance. << It is correct AND relevant. >>At no point in your "explanation" have you shown that all that carbon was out in the atmosphere at a single time. If you look around you there is carbon all over the place which is not in CO2 form, including in your own body.<< All of it wasn't in the atmosphere at one time but a whole heck of a lot more than is there now. Our atmosphere has evolved from much higher levels of CO2 than exist now and relatively little oxygen. Yes there is carbon in other forms but take a guess where it ALL came from? CO2. How did carbon get into your body? Do you eat vegatables? The ONLY source of carbon for plants is CO2. Plants breath in the CO2 and and exhale oxygen (that's why countries want to include CO2 "sinks" in the form of forest etc). Ok so you don't eat your vegetables and just eat beaf which also have carbon. The cow ate his vegetables for you in the form of grass. Now when the earth 1st existed there was no pockets of gas or oil. These sources were created by the trapping of huge amounts of vegetation under ground by tectonic movement of the earth(sometimes violent). Oil and gas are created by the huge amount of pressures that were exerted over time. So, you're right these huge amounts of carbon "stores" that are underground now didn't exist eons ago and all that carbon was in the air air in the form of CO2 (remember matter is neither created nor destroyed). Ok I grant you that human form didn't exist billions of years ago, but "life" did. And in the time of much higher CO2 levels, we experienced numerous ice ages, we've never experienced "global warming" that wiped out life. As we release more CO2 we create more environmental opportunity for rain forest, etc. Just remember that the largest known deposit of oil is now under a desert, at one time it was a rain forest. And one more thing to remember, scientist can't figure out where all the CO2 being created is going to, a lot more is being released than is registering in atmospheric measurements. Jim