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When is the carbon stored in fossil fuels released back to the atmosphere under natural conditions?
What natural processes do you contemplate would result in fossilized carbon (coal, oil or gas) being returned to the atmosphere?
Judging from the picture below,
Some coal deposits are between 250 Ma &...
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