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To: J.B.C. who wrote (164679)	7/26/2001 10:55:14 AM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You have still not addressed my main points. The fact that carbon makes into fossil fuel via CO2 does not imply that all that CO2 was in the atmosphere at a single time. Here's a simple scenario (one of many possible): A large deposit of ethane slowly escapes from the mantle and burns in the atmosphere. This produces CO2 which is assimilated by plants and converted into fossil fuel through the ages. This is but one form in which all that CO2 can end as fossil fuel without ever having been all at once in the air. You must first deal with this argument. And then, even if by some insight scientists were able to show today that indeed all that CO2 was in the atmosphere at once, that would still not make the earth sfae from greenhouse effects. To give you a simple example, scientists know that earth at some point was all molten lava and volcanic activity. Does that make it ok for humans if the earth was to become one huge volcano today? Even a six year old could see the difference between then and now. carbon