The Great Global Warming Scam

[Esio Trot]

Originally Posted by Beserker

As for dissolved oceanic carbon, just a quick Google will yield results that relate to sudden changes in the ammount of oceanic CO2 and how these can change in relation to atmospheric conitions. Water vapour? As the earth's temperature increases so does the ammount of cloud and we end up with, a greenhouse cycle and one that is hard to stop. It has already happened to one planet in our solar system (Venus).

Speaking of oceans, I can't see why, when all this oil is being extracted from off-shore sites, they can't/don't pump in sea water to replace the oil. It would help stop the sea level rising, surely.

But then, when you look at a globe of the Pacific Ocean, it covers almost all of the half you look at. I wonder if any one has worked out how may billions of gallons this ocean would need to raise it by a foot or so.

[skbuncks]

Originally Posted by Esio Trot

Speaking of oceans, I can't see why, when all this oil is being extracted from off-shore sites, they can't/don't pump in sea water to replace the oil. It would help stop the sea level rising, surely.
They do, this is how oil is extracted: sea water is pumped in to displace the oil and maintain reservior pressure. Additionally burining oil based products produces water sd well as CO2.

But then, when you look at a globe of the Pacific Ocean, it covers almost all of the half you look at. I wonder if any one has worked out how may billions of gallons this ocean would need to raise it by a foot or so.
They have and its a lot. However as (and if) the earth gets warmer there is also thermal expansion of the oceans to consider.

For an interesting, is somewhat biased, read on Global Sea Levels and predicted risings see here



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