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Article #7751Re: Oil Remaining?
From: Richard Ottolini
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 14:46
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 14:46
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In article <2uvurf$t6m@agate.berkeley.edu>, Gregory Brian Pasternack <gpast@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote: >Ed Evans (ed.evans@kandy.com) wrote: > >> Anyone have anything on the latest prophesy regarding amounts of oil >> remaining? > >Regardless of the amount of oil we may or may not have, we stand to >suffocate on CO2 if we burn off all of our reserves of fossil fuels. >Even if that extreme is safely avoided (which shouldn't be too hard, >eh?), there is still the question of the impact of our oil consumption on >global change... DO check your arithmetic. See "the Geochemical Carbon Cycle" in 1989 Scientific American for some numbers. Burning all the fossil would increase the current amount of CO2 several times, but not to the point of suffocation. Could change the climate, however.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10df74,46a5a8c9ae00fb0d X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-01 19:48:12 PST Newsgroups: ca.environment Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!demon!pipex!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!unogate!stgprao From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) Subject: Re: Oil Remaining? Message-ID: <Cs9nq9.J3J@unocal.com> Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News) Organization: Unocal Corporation References: <grueCrx3uI.J8x@netcom.com> <c4.157.1402.0NB77984@kandy.com> <2uvurf$t6m@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 14:46:57 GMT Lines: 17