This article raises the question of how oxygen levels have changed over the past 2 centuries, when carbon dioxide has been increasing.
John Mills Decatur, Ala.
There is a problem in this interesting article. The graph of oxygen content versus time doesn’t agree with the text. Specific example: “About 255 million years ago … the oxygen concentration stood at 30 percent.”
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