All the crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico was going to be cracked and then burned and end up in the air as various gases; 12,000 to 100,000 barrels a day apparently.
It is a reminder of the rate at which we are converting the carbon that was sequestered underground over the millions of years of the Carboniferous back into gases in the atmosphere. I must find out whether the nature of the global environment at the beginning of the Carboniferous has been determined, as we are in the process of recreating it. What are the chances that it was not significantly different from what we had at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?
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I think the last time our atmosphere was like where it is heading now was around 60m years ago. all corals went extinct, but they did re-evolve after about 25m years. apparently that’s happened maybe 3 times. ie the symbiosis has evolved several times. in other words, considerably different from 300 years ago.
Thank you very much. That’s what I wanted to know. Unfortunately it is as I expected.