High CO2 good for plants and Dinosaurs http://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-dioxide.html
Bring back T Rex On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Jojo Iznart <[email protected]> wrote: > We scare people with 6C temp rise but we ofter neglect to examine what a > 6C rise really means. > > I submit that it won't be bad, in fact, I believe it would be beneficial > to mankind. More planting seasons, more planting land reclaimed from ice, > and more steady temps in temperate regions for more consistent crop > yields. The downside is a few low lying areas will be inundated (including > my place here in Philippines) - if the predictions are accurate. > Reasonable tradeoff I think for this worst case scenario. > > But, the more basic problem is, global warming alarmist still has to > explain why our global temps have been steady for at least a decade now in > the face of accelerating carbon emissions. Why is that? and please don't > tell me that it is due to Global warming. > > > Jojo > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* CB Sites <[email protected]> > *To:* vortex-l <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2014 2:49 AM > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:global warming? > > I've wondered if the Oil industry isn't just trying to stall other forms > of energy until the inventory of Oil is used up. This is also a race > against mankind's interests in reducing greenhouse gasses. This is a rough > estimate, but there are only about 40 years left of oil. Here are the > calculations; > > Total world oil reservers is ~1,35 Trillion Barrels. Average daily oil > consumption is estimated at ~85.6 million barrels/day. 1350GB / > 0.0856GB/day = 15771 days of oil left. 15771 / 356 days/year = 44 years of > oil left. +/- a couple of years. > > In addition, this is the approximate CO2 produced by that oil to be added > on to the 400ppm we already have; > 3.15 barrels produces 1.0 tonne of CO2. So in 44 years, we will have > dumped > 1350GB/3.15 TCo2/B = 428,571,428,571 TonsCO2 (429 GTons CO2). > > Every 15 GT CO2 will rise CO2 by 1.0ppm. 50ppm will rise global temps by > 1C. 429/15=28.6ppm or ~0.6C gain from now > until oil is used up in 40 years or so. > > Similar calculations on coal will yield a 1.30C change in the same time > period, and combined with oil it give 1.58C global average temp change in > 40 years. Coal us in the developing countries has increased exponentially > so this really could be an underestimate. If there is a 2C rise in global > average temperatures occurs by 2050, (in line with these estimates), 4C by > 2100 is very likely and if coal use is accelerating, a 6C change is really > likely. > > Sadly for mankind, the corporate world is more than happy to do the > waiting game and continue to gather huge profits from stone age polluting > technologies for years to come. > > . > > > > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *From:* Terry Blanton >> >> >> >> But, have you considered how much cheaper it will be to pump oil from the >> ground using a LENR source? :-) >> >> >> >> Actually that is not sarcasm. It is likely that a prime early use of LENR >> will to extend the productive life of oilfields by a large factor. The USA >> has a sunk-cost infrastructure of 150,000,000 working vehicles, and the >> supply system for fuel delivery, so the economics of using LENR to leverage >> multi-trillion dollar legacy is a no-brainer. That is accomplished by >> bringing up deeper oil, and is actually a stronger incentive, economically >> - than using LENR as an alternative to the ICE… EVEN when the new >> technology lowers the value of the deeper oil! …at least for most consumers >> in the near term. Green activists do not want to believe this, but it is >> obvious to realists and most economists – nothing is more compelling >> economically than extending the lifetime of a sunk cost. >> >> >> >> In terms of geology, it appears now that most if not all of the mega oil >> fields are sitting on top of deeper shale which was in fact - the original >> source of the now depleted lighter oils. That is the real lesson of the >> Bakken and fracking. >> >> >> >> This is why Texas has and will continued to lead in oil production – even >> after most of the shallow wells are depleted. There could 10 times more oil >> than realized if and when it can be pumped up from 2 miles. This will >> leverage the energy of LENR in a non-green way, but follow the buck… it >> will happen and politics will not likely change that. >> >> >> >> Look for Texas oil money to try to put their man in the White House next >> go around… even if he is a Canuck J >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
