"Eisboch" wrote in message ...

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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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The History Channel ran a great documentary on oil over the weekend. It
explained how oil was (and still is) created from atoms of carbon and I
thought the whole thing was interesting. It also opened my eyes a bit.
For many reasons, not the least of which being the surprise emergence of
China and the growing oil demands of it's population, we looks like we
may be in deep doo-doo much sooner than forecast even 10 years ago.

Eisboch


They also ran a show on global warming, it is global warming in the past
that created the oil in the first place.
But the basic tenant is that the more green house gases mankind spews, the
warmer the earth gets, the more melting that creates releases more
greenhouse gases, etc, etc, etc until the whole planet is too warm
everywhere but the artic.

And yes the earth goes through warming and cooling periods caused by the
sun - but this time mankind is a huge contributing factor.



I've resisted the temptation to jump on the "man is the cause of global
warming" bandwagon precisely because the earth has gone through these cycles
naturally for 10's of thousands of years.

10's or thousands?

The earth is over 4 billion years old. Its gone through cycles
before and will again whether CO2 emissions are the cause or not.
Sooner or later we're going to have to learn to live with
whatever comes. Im not going to go out a buy an electric car just yet.

We have yet to find a suitable energy replacement for petrolium.
Somebody needs to get to work on this pretty soon.

db