[Magdalen] gas prices?

[James Oppenheimer]

You can pretty much kiss off the USA right over to New York. That's where
the plume is sure to hit. Other places might also get a "bonus" just
because. Nah, I think I'll pass on the Yellowstone, thanks anyhow!

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>