I don't think photosynthesis will actually have any effect, other than altering part of the spectrum, atleast not when you factor in the effects of respiration (which will turn the added mass back...
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I don't think photosynthesis will actually have any effect, other than altering part of the spectrum, atleast not when you factor in the effects of respiration (which will turn the added mass back...
Well indeed but the way its phrased seems to imply something else:
"additional solid matter"
"coal beds that were formed in the Carboniferous (~360 to ~290 Ma) from living trees"
"They...
This seems horribly confused.
Hmm fair point, i'm estimating a 10 degree loss in the temperature of the Earth translating into a loss of 10^11 Kg!
Now having said that i can't seem to find any info on what kind of total...
If you double the temperature of an object you do not double its mass.
There is a mass associated with the K.E of an object, (or the sum of kinetic energies of its constituent parts) but that...
I'm afraid both those statements are basically wrong.
Burning stuff doesn't decrease mass, it just moves it around a bit.
The earth will lose mass by radiating it, but on average we will...
Presumeably the sun is losing mass though, even if it is expanding.
We will have lost some atmosphere but have been hit by quite a few meteors/comets, intuitively you would expect the meteors to outweigh the loss of atmosphere by quite a lot, so i'd guess an increase.