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To: Alomex who wrote (164593)	7/26/2001 9:56:52 AM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

>> For example Neptune contains ethane. The composition of ethane is C2H6.<< What a riot, two posts ago you didn't know the carbon cycle now you're an astrophysicist. Ok I'll play your little game. It's amazing what one can get with a match book cover, 3 Wheaties box tops, and a postage stamp. >> Knowing that hundreds of millions of years ago the earth was all sulfuric gass is very small consolation to a dying humanity.<< Where did that come from? We're a dying humanity? Population and life spans are at their highest levels ever. Oh, and it wasn't all sulfuric gas a hundred million years ago. >>...(was no pockets of gas or oil.) Wrong. In all likelihood the earth had quite a bit of gas on its own back then.<< Unfortunately for you this is most likely false. The types of fuels found for usage are the complex carbon chains found from the process of vegetation decay, not the simple radical forms of carbon that form naturally. From Encarta: "In order to find crude oil underground, geologists must search for a sedimentary basin in which shales rich in organic material have been buried for a sufficiently long time for petroleum to have formed. The petroleum must also have had an opportunity to migrate into porous traps that are capable of holding large amounts of fluid. The occurrence of crude oil in Earth's crust is limited both by these conditions, which must be met simultaneously, and by the time span of tens of millions to a hundred million years required for the oil's formation. " >>(all that carbon was in the 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. << Agreed all carbon was not in the form of CO2, for the sake of brevity AND statistically speaking I made that statement. However this much is true: The fuels that we are using are from decayed vegetation trapped from tectonic action. The ONLY source of carbon for plants is CO2. You can twist and squirm all you want, but the fact remains that the fuels we burn today return what once WAS CO2 to the atmosphere. AND besides, any other form of radical carbon gas that you mention, is STILL a "global warming" gas so your point is mute. >>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). << It's not ignorant to know that a lot more CO2 existed in the atmosphere long ago and that since that time the earth has cooled and actually had ice ages. But NEVER has the earth heated up and killed off life in the past eons. A sort of environmental entropy. See if you can find the match book cover for your Thermodynamics Degree. You have a good one. Jim