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Eaten by plants, turned into coal. Atmospheric CO2 will indeed go down, after… some time.
by Filligree 3y ago
Eaten by plants, turned into coal. Atmospheric CO2 will indeed go down, after… some time.
- ianburrell 3y agoMy understanding is that weathering of rocks is bigger but slower than organic carbon cycle. It works on order of thousands of years, and is the main long-term balance.
- mikrotikker 3y agoI thought all coal was created in the carboniferous because no organisms had yet developed to break down that material?