Game Over for the Climate

[boclucky14]

I became aware that oil is a finite, rapidly depleting resource back in the early 70s, and desiring to save some for future generations.

This is a commonly held belief - that oil is a finite resource. It was commonly accepted that these came from some period of history in the Earth when there was a huge amount of vegetation on Earth, the Carboniferous Period - obviously, stuff dies, gets buried, and supposedly became energy waiting for humans to tap. The process supposedly took millions of years.

The thing is that this is true with coal - science can definitely state that coal came from dead vegetation. However, no one can offer any evidence of where oil or natural gas came from. Considering some is found at levels of the Earth, that, if from dead vegetation or animals, then would be before the Carboniferious Period.

I’m willing to bet the Earth turns out more oil every day, and not from dead vegetation. But there’s no scientific proof either way.

 

[edwest2]

This is a commonly held belief - that oil is a finite resource. It was commonly accepted that these came from some period of history in the Earth when there was a huge amount of vegetation on Earth, the Carboniferous Period - obviously, stuff dies, gets buried, and supposedly became energy waiting for humans to tap. The process supposedly took millions of years.

The thing is that this is true with coal - science can definitely state that coal came from dead vegetation. However, no one can offer any evidence of where oil or natural gas came from. Considering some is found at levels of the Earth, that, if from dead vegetation or animals, then would be before the Carboniferious Period.

I’m willing to bet the Earth turns out more oil every day, and not from dead vegetation. But there’s no scientific proof either way.

Actually, there is:

nature.com/news/2008/080131/full/news.2008.542.html

Peace,
Ed

 

[Michael_Mayo]

1. The biological record of the earth indicates very strongly that ‘warm earth’ is good, ‘cold earth’ is bad for life. And we happen to be life. Now, the whole nuclear winter thing from years ago was scary. Periods of cold have corresponded with mass extintions. However, periods of a warm earth correspond with a proliferation of life. Is life the greater good? Or just some strange concept that all change but manmade change is good, and that any change man contributes to the environment must be bad by some principle I don’t understand.

I just know hat I do not remember such heat in years past.

More than 2,000 heat records matched or broken

reuters.com/article/2012/07/02/us-usa-weather-records-idUSBRE8611EL20120702

 

[edwest2]

How far back do you want to go and what part of the planet are you referring to?

alaskadispatch.com/article/2011-heat-wave-not-hottest-us-history-not-long-shot

msnbc.msn.com/id/8387599/ns/world_news-europe/t/italy-warns-million-seniors-heat-wave/

Scroll down a little for the US bar graph

www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/1036/record-high-temperatures-far-outpace-record-lows-across-us

In 1983, in the summer, we had a 103 degree Fahrenheit day. You’ll note that the 1950s and 1980s have close numbers regarding record highs.

I am very confident that the very wealthy will contact their friends in the scientific community to fund various schemes already proposed to combat the perceived, and in my view, unproven threat.

Peace,
Ed

 

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