kareina

Pardon me for challenging a geologist, but isn't only coal made this way, i.e. from land plants? I understood that oil was formed from marine algae dying on massse and falling to the bottom, where it gets covered, buried deeper, pressurised, ra, ra, on it goes. I saw a doco on it once years ago, and the presenter stated that it was a rather unusual set of events that caused the oil to form. He stated that it was actually excessive CO2 in the atmosphere, resulting in acidification of the oceans and a mass die off of all sea-life across the globe, (similar to what has begun again now)including vast amounts of algae which was thriving in the warm, stable seas of the day. I'd be interested to hear your view on this.

Anyway, from the Swiss persepctive, however it was formed, it wasn't god, and it wasn't *for us*, and even Hans's brother in law won't live for 100 million years, clever as he is.