More Words, Deeper Hole

The estimates for ancient oxygen were pretty shaky, last time I looked. I'm falling behind in that area, though. As to the carbon, some of it was indeed in the atmosphere, but at that time the sun was cooler, so it's rather a good thing it was there as even so the Carboniferous ice age was the most extensive in the past 600 million years, with CO2 at near-current levels.

My guess is that only new technology will solve this problem, and I am certain that the free market will not produce said technology by iteslf (though once it is produced the FM will make a ton off of it, and later claim to have invented it). A Manhattan-project sized effort, proportional to our economy today, might work wonders.

William Hyde