Warming to worsen droughts, floods, storms this century: UN panel
posted by Chris Irwin at 10:37 AM
Friday, February 02, 2007
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Liposuctioning the Earth
Friday February 4,2007
Liposuctioning the earth .....{slowly but surely}
As we go on listening about how our environment is changing Little attention is paid ,in my opinion, to the root cause. Yes, we have ranted on the oil companies for years about how the emissions are polluting the atmosphere, wrecking the "o"zone layer etc. while they absorbed the abuse they’ve made minor adjustments here and there enough to satisfy their critics and the unsuspecting public.
Consider this, for the last one hundred years the oil companies have been Liposuctioning the earth, that is, pulling [sludge] called “crude”, from deep in the earth causing cavitation.
The earth, being so structured, having a hot core, why would one suspect why that sludge was there in the first place? Perhaps as an insulator? Or maybe as a barrier between the earths gasses and water vein, or maybe it was meant to stabilize all of these things?
So the ice caps are melting, and at a much more rapid rate after drilling started in Alaska. The oceans are warming? Is it because of the "0" zone or is the earth heating up more rapidly from lack of insulation from within?
Will anyone investigate the possibilities? I doubt it. God forbid that anyone from the Billionaires to the millionaires to the most minute shareholders should have to be sacrificed! There is the [ECONOMICS] to consider they argue.
If the oil ran out tomorrow the damage is done. The world will remain unstable for generations to come with or without wars. Should it survive at all it will be in a very different configuration.
All one has to do is go outside and look up. There is Jupiter, Pluto, Mars, and even the Moon [that we know of] Does one take time to wonder if possibly at sometime in the distant past there were greedy people like us that destroyed such beautiful planets? perhaps in similar manor and for the same reason,
God knows! ......Thank you, Charlie
I had to chuckle when I read the comment about "Liposuctioning the Earth"...heady stuff!
I'm a geologist by training and its also my job. So to openionatedpuppy, I can set your mind at ease that the pulling of "sludge" or crude oil from the deep in the earth is not causing cavitation. Oil is not particularly deep in the earth, the majority of the wells drilled to produce crude oil are within 1 mile of the surface. Most oil reservoirs are porous rocks such as sandstones or porous limestones, and the oil is trapped within the pores of those rocks. In nearly all cases, when oil is removed from the poor spaces, either by flowing under its own pressure or by being pumped, the pore space is backfilled by naturally occurring waters and/or brines. I'm not sure the oil was "meant" to serve any purpose; rather it migrated from a source rock that had undergone subsidence to depth sufficient to "cook" the organic matter present in the rock and turn it into basically oil. That oil then migrated into neighboring porous rocks until it reached a "trap" and stopped, where it remained until some clever geologist or geophysicist found it and a well was drilled to produce it so that it could be refined and used by you in the gas tank of your hybrid vehicle, or spun into a fleece to keep you warm when you're skiing, or made into plastic or one of the millions of other uses of petroleum products.
As for the effects of global warming and openionatedpuppy's fears that the earth will end up looking like the moon because the ice caps are melting, I would say, are you serious? The ocean has been much warmer and much colder than it is today. Sea level has been hundreds of meters higher and lower than it is today. The planet has seen conditions far more extreme than even the most pessimistic climate model suggests. And the earth survived those conditions and went on to generate the biodiversity we see today. So I'm not worried about the earth. Even if we burned every piece of organic material on and in the planet in one day, the planet would continue to turn and rotate around the sun and life would go on. Maybe not for humans or other fauna that can't make the adjustments; but life would go on and species would adapt and evolve. So don't worry about the earth. If you're worried about the human race, say so. The earth will be just fine.
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