[Magdalen] gas prices?

[Lesley de Voil]

Allan, Unfortunately the carbon being emitted doesn't immediately sit
back on the earth. It spends considerable time in the atmosphere as
CO2 and other gases, providing an insulating blanket, slowing down the
retransmission of heat energy from the sun. (Until the early 20th
century, the amount of soiar radiation hitting the earth was balanced
by the amount of heat radiation leaving it.)
What we could do with (in one sense) is a really big volcanic event
(think Yellowstone) that emitted enough cloudy dust to blanket the
earth for some years, that would really diminish the amount of heat
entering the system. Unfortunately, it would have the side effect of
ruining agriculture worldwide for some years. The results would not be
pretty for people and other living creatures.

Regards
Lesley de Voil


On 10/25/14, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't oil and gas originally form from dead marine organisms and hence the
> carbon in gas and oil is similarly being recycled, except over millions of
> years rather than just a few?
>
> Maybe I should look at coal, oil and gas as nature's way of removing carbon
> from the surface of the earth and locking it up deep below. Is there
> actually far less carbon at the surface than there was millions of years
> ago? Is burning gas, oil, and gasoline just putting back the carbon to the
> surface where it came from?
>
> I'm not advocating anything, just thinking aloud.
>