Just curious what an inverted reality of ours would be like, where instead of having too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere creating glasshouse gas effect, what would the inverse be like where we don’t have enough carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? What would the climate of earth be like?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    “Not enough CO2” probably would be bad news for trees and other photosynthesizing life, since it’s what they breathe. But there was actually a period of time millions of years ago when the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere was much greater.

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, if I’m remembering correctly, there was more oxygen in the atmosphere when dinosaurs were around. The more oxygen allowed animals to grow larger, uncluding bugs 😬

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        Yeah, bugs are most heavily size restricted by oxygen intake. It would be horrifying to let them have more.