Your absolutely right. In the early history of the solar, a very strong solar wind blew away most of the atmospheres of the inner planets. A further decrease, for the Earth, was due to ... carbon sequestration. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> ... Now that I understand this a little better, I now think we have a much bigger problem: where, when and how did we lose the rest of the Earth's atmosphere ? Even 5 billion years can't put a dent in the numbers above, so how come the Earth's atmosphere isn't a lot bigger, so that the rate of loss today would still be measurable ? This tells me that something fairly dramatic must have happened early in the Solar system's history to pull and/or blast away most of the early atmosphere. At 08:20 PM 8/1/2006, franktaw@netscape.net wrote:
If you keep pumping carbon dioxide into the column, the pressure will increase. If you don't, you won't get a measurable amount of carbon dioxide escaping.
Franklin T. Adams-Watters