443 I am going to talk about the Earth's Atmosphere, which is because of the planet having carbon-based life for 3.5 billion , equals a very, very thin!

    Why you ask, does the planet having life on it make the atmosphere thin? Every farmer will tell you that when you remove a crop from their land, they have to replace some of the nutrients that produced the crop, removed. Normally this means adding back either nitrogen, potassium, and or phosphates, but every so often they will need to add back some micro-nutrients that will show up this need, after taking soil samples. Our planet's atmosphere is no different, for as life removes gasses from the atmosphere in growing (this is almost always carbon dioxide) some of that carbon dioxide remains out of the atmosphere because of sequestration! As are some of the soil nutrients are also removed this same way, sequestration is a never-ending process that buries billions of tons of life every year and then by compression, heat, and simply chance, that takes this material and changes it into, mainly limestone, but also oil, gas, coal, peat, and including many other types of sedimentary rocks! 

    This naturally occurring process only works on planets that have life on them! (yes, there are some chemical reactions that may cause precipitation of gasses out of the atmosphere without life needing to be involved but looking at our neighboring planets this does not seem to be a major source of carbon dioxide sequestration) Sequestration of life by life has been going on for the complete history of our planet having life on it, so over 3,500,000,000 years. The only reasons that our planet has been able to maintain carbon-based life on the planet for so long is 1) that there was so very much carbon dioxide in the much thicker atmosphere, around 92 times as thick as it is now and it was almost solely made up of carbon dioxide at 96%, and 2) the fact that this planet has an active plate tectonic which helps recycle long term storage of carbon at the boundaries of these many moving plates. 3) As levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have lowered over these billions of years plant life has been ever so slowly adapting to these changing levels so that their new requirements of how much carbon dioxide they now need will match what is available! But now the planet plant life is running into a very difficult situation so 4) comes into play, around 2.5 million years ago (long before mankind came into being) the carbon dioxide finally dropped down below the level necessary for maintaining temperature high enough to prevent snow and ice from becoming a major player of the world eco-systems and the first of many ice-ages followed. The length of each ice-age was dependent on how long it took to evaporate enough of the carbon-dioxide-rich waters of the great oceans of the planet to both off-set carbon sequestration and bring up the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so that the sun's energy could stop and force a temporary retreat of the ice! But even this addition of carbon dioxide only would delay a new renewal of the next advance of ice for around 10,000 years while the lengthening time frame of advancing ice would increase from around 40,000 years to over 100,000 years with only a short reprieve of normally around 10,000 years. 5) There was one more way to increase available carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and that was by restricting where plant life could be in abundance, by creating and increasing areas of arid and semi-arid areas around the planet, and in doing so the soil rich carbons in these areas would over time decay out and become available for the rest of the planet to make use of, but at a great cost to the temperature-regulating abilities of the planet. The loss of cloud-cover plus now these same areas allowed the sun's ray's to not just be reflected back into space but they now were converted to heat as they hit the newly un-protected soils of these areas. Causing extreme temperature variations within each 24-hour period, and this, in turn, results in extreme weather events hundreds and even thousands of miles away! 

    Earth, with its carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere at the start of life on the planet, was able to maintain life for over 3.5 billion years, and the plate tectonics of the planet (being much more active at the beginning with a slowly cooling core over time that has led to less and less carbon dioxide re-entering the atmosphere from long-term storage) Now, only action by the only species on the planet that can do so, "Mankind", can we hope to recreate enough of the temperature-regulating abilities of the planet, through using the "plan" so that as long as mankind remains as a viable species on the planet so will all carbon-based life also remain! 

    I understand how we can only see life on the planet and not believe that it will always be so, but mankind is here for a reason, and that is to help ensure that life can go forth, for, without mankind, the planet is facing the slow but inevitable end of that life, leaving only a frozen planet spinning around a distant sun, not unlike all of the outer planets of the solar system.

    Hoping that you who are reading my posts are intelligent enough and curious enough to actually do your own homework in verifying everything that I am trying to get people to understand, will call others, text your friends, and perhaps contact me, for I can be reached 24/7 at 402-890-7946 (perhaps the most unused phone number anywhere) or my computer address is   daniel.kadavy212@gmail.com   or if you wish to read more, "anyone and everyone" can go to   https://lifecycleofaplanet.blogspot.com   The planet is far too beautiful to not do our very best to save all carbon-based life on her! (including ourselves) Thank you, Daniel James Kadavy