[Magdalen] gas prices?

[Allan Carr]

As far as I know, no one disputes that we're living in an ice age with
periodic warming like this one, the Holocene. There's speculation that
global warming caused by humans may delay the onset of the next glacial age
from its due date of 1500 years from now. By how many years, I don't know.

Looking at the long view, global warming by humans is not even close to
that due to farting by dinosaurs which kept the planet very warm until they
were wiped out by an asteroid.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:55 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.
> >
>



-- 
Allan Carr