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Re:Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener by fooker on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:18AM (#19262505)
No, not again. Coal came from plants in an era where microbes could not yet decompose plants.
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Re:Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener by swish_bob on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:53AM (#19263573)
Peat is the first step in forming coal. Peat still forms under the correct conditions, so coal can still be formed.

Conditions might be rarer, but the steps aren't solely reliant on the absence of microbes which now exist.

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Re:Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener by yostrovs on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @07:39AM (#19262842)
Don't forget to credit fungi too!
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