Q is for all of the questions that will naturally arise from why the "Plan" is the only way forward! If the planet is really running out of carbon?

        Why simply adding carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere as mankind has been doing since we became an agricultural-driven society is not the answer? Let me explain what the planet was like when dinosaurs ruled the planet. (This is the best guess about this time out there) First there was probably no ice anywhere on the planet, or if there was it was likely only because of the 6 months of dark at either poles, and would have quickly melted as 6 months of sunlight returned, the whole planet would have maintained a very limited temperature range as we now see in the tropics. seldom would there be a full day of sunlight as the cloud cover and the moisture in the air would be quite consistent! Insects would have also ruled the planet and that would explain why thick hard skin would have been the dominant rule for the dinosaurs and why so many lived in and near water. Plantlife was rampant on the whole planet, while there were a few arid and semi-areas areas on the planet these were caused by regional physical reasons, mountain rain shadows, and the like, Many of the currents that we now have both in the oceans and the atmosphere would have been much weaker then there are today because of fewer temperature extremes over all of the planet, the biggest unknown of that time is the deepwater temperatures of the oceans! Carbon dioxide levels in both the atmosphere and the waters of the planet were many times higher than there are now and yet the air temperature of the planet was only slightly warmer than they are now with no temperature over most of the planet less than 70 degrees Fahrenheit at night and unlikely to reach pass the high 90's during the day, but boy would it be humid both day and night! Much of the sunlight that did hit the planet was either reflected off of the cloud cover back into space or changed into energy for the plant life that left almost none of the surface of the planet bare. Rainfall amounts would have been huge but gentle, and some relief from the humidity. With no ice on the planet, the land surface would have been less, as sea levels may have risen almost 300 feet, (this is really a matter of speculation as continental shifts and varying depths of the oceans would have played a major factor in available surface land sizes). In general not the type of planet that mankind would be used to if you do not live in a tropical rainforest. But these levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that allowed for such a planetary condition were far higher than mankind could hope to replicate even if we would want to, and I am pretty sure we would not want to!  Starting around 3 million years ago our planet entered into quite a different problem, there simply was no longer enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to both keep the soils of the planet covered with plant life, and the temperature high enough to keep rain from turning into snow and then ice. Something had to give, so those areas of the planet that were naturally receiving less rainfall than other places started to become more and more arid as the plant life struggled to survive with lower levers of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which meant the plants stoma had to open wilder to let in the decreasing levels, allowing more of the trapped water back out of the plants causing the failure of C3 plant life in those areas, Less plant respiration meant less moisture into the atmosphere, leading to less rainfall, and a drought cycle is started, creating an increase of arid and semi-arid areas around the planet! This condition does have an upside, in that carbon that had once been in the soils and needed for plant life was now available for use in those areas that did have more rainfall. There was one more, very important upside, to the creation of deserts and semi-arid areas, as soils became exposed to the sun's rays both because of the lowering levels of cloud cover and the increasing areas of limited plant life, more of the sun's rays were changed into heat, instead of either being reflected back into space or changed into energy for plant life and in so doing, warmed many parts of the planet enough to keep the ice in more northern and southern areas of the planet. The end of part one of Q is for the Questions. Dan