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To: J.B.C. who wrote (164565)	7/25/2001 10:59:24 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

All of it wasn't in the atmosphere at one time but a whole heck of a lot more than is there now. Back when the earth was a mass of molten lava the atmosphere might have contained a lot more CO2 and other poisonous gases. But this is irrelevant. We humans do not live in a fireball of molten lava, we leave in a specific ecosystem with requirements of rain fall and temperature. Knowing that hundreds of millions of years ago the earth was all sulfuric gass is very small consolation to a dying humanity. Now when the earth 1st existed there was no pockets of gas or oil. Wrong. In all likelihood the earth had quite a bit of gas on its own back then. For example Neptune contains ethane. The composition of ethane is C2H6. all that carbon was in the air air in the form of CO2 No, it wasn't. You seem to believe that the only form Carbon can take in nature is CO2 and fossil fuel. This shows how little you know about chemistry. Ethane is but one example of carbon present in nature in a non-fossil fuel form (there are no fossils in Neptune). There are some aspects of the greenhouse effect that remain to be explained, but your objections are not one of them. They only show your gullibility to buy into a flawed argument (i.e. carbon is either fossil fuel or CO2. That is plain wrong and ignorant).