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> I think we should also consider the outcome of oil burning for other 
> species, which you hint at above by the use of "all".

Yes indeed!

Sorry to waste the bandwidth with another reply here, but I got so many 
e-mail responses to my earlier comments that I just wanted to clarify one 
point:

  I am aware that simultaneous combustion of all of our oil reserves 
  followed by perfect mixing of the CO2 in the atmosphere is an impossible 
  occurrence!  However, using this "back of the envelope" calculation 
  allows us to make a simple test that we can all understand without having 
  Ph.D.s in computer modeling and geoscience. 

Carbon Cycle models like that offered by Berner, R.A. and Lasaga, A.C. 
in "Modeling the geochemical carbon cycle" in Sci. Amer., March 1989 are 
the most accurate tools available for studying the impact of the increase 
in atm. CO2 on the global climate. 

As for the DIRECT impact of increasing atm. CO2, the fact remains that if 
society continues to pollute (at an ever increasing rate, too) and the 
atm. CO2 conc. continues to rise, then the CO2 conc. will eventually reach a 
level at which people will suffer physically.

On that optimistic note :-) ... 

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