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A Dearth of Carbon?

Patrick Moore - Stuart McNish
Canada
2018
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Earth is a unique water planet with an atmosphere that sustains myriad life forms. To understand climate - a long average of weather, it is necessary to understand daily and seasonal weather. To understand weather, it is necessary to include all significant processes as they vary around the planet and with time, not just global static averages of sunlight, infrared radiation, greenhouse gases and albedo. John Shanahan, Civil Engineer. Not a meteoroloogist. Not a quantum physicist!

Dr. Moore says we were literally running out of carbon before we started to pump it back into the atmosphere, “CO2 has been declining to where it is getting close to the end of plant life, and in another 1.8 million years, life would begin to die on planet Earth for lack of CO2.” According to Moore it is life itself that has been consuming carbon and storing it in carbonaceous rocks.