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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (61785)	4/12/2005 5:04:09 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Any fossil hydrocarbons we extract were alive once upon a time.<< Really? How do you explain the methane on Saturn's frozen moon, Titan? Fish farting under the ice?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (61785)	4/12/2005 5:17:48 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>I don't think we have even a very remote chance of overshooting and creating runaway cooking into a Venus-style oven.<< By cooking I merely meant that the ice caps melt and sea levels rise, not that we fry like Venus. Then the resulting proliferation of life locks up all the carbon and we head into another long deep ice age. Eventually we'll invent some sort of nanotechnology to control the process. The Global Carbon Reserve Board, chaired by some future Alan Greenspan, will meet quarterly and decide whether to add or remove carbon from the atmosphere. There will be the usual arguments between the easy-carbon and tight-carbon policy proponents. Financial traders will be poised at their terminals, ready to trade huge quantities of stocks and commodities depending on the outcome.