If all the carbon stored in fossil fuels was once in the atmosphere, should the planet then have been too warm to sustain life?
In: Planetary Science
To echo some responses here.. yes, at one point in early formation the earth was entirely too hot to support almost any kind of life. However certain thermophile organisms would have possibly lived well. They exist to this day.. living in hot springs and ocean vent environments. When the dinosaurs reigned the earth would have looked far different than it does today.. very humid, very hot and covered by dense tropical forests. This is (arguably) why we have such an abundance of fossil fuels today.
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