"In 1957, three decades before the sudden surge of interest in global warming, [[Roger Revelle]], an [[American]] oceanographer, and [[Hans Suess]], a physical chemist, appraised the process of mass-scale fossil fuel combustion in its correct evolutionary terms: “**Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future. Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years**.”" ([Location 3541](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=3541)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[geology]], [[climate-change]], [[decarbonisation]], [[scientific-method]], [[fossil-fuels]], [[decarbonisation]], **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]