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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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It's crazy that we know all the carbon in coal and and oil and ect comes from a period of history where there was more carbon in earths cycles, and it's widely believed to be a period of time where the whole earth had a tropical environment.
And everyone was just like "Putting this all back in the atmosphere is probably fine."
The Permian-Triassic extinction event was mostly cyanobacteria farts. They took over the world and methaned up the air.
Worked out for the dinosaurs, I guess.