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[Filligree]

Eaten by plants, turned into coal. Atmospheric CO2 will indeed go down, after… some time.

[ianburrell → Filligree]

My 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 → Filligree]

I thought all coal was created in the carboniferous because no organisms had yet developed to break down that material?