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Gold/Mining/Energy : Strictly: Drilling and oil-field services
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To: Aggie who wrote (55413)11/24/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: Think4Yourself  Read Replies (2) of 95453
 
I also have a small story. While open water swimming across a fairly large lake outside Tulsa OK this summer (~2 miles) I noticed bubbles coming to the surface. Having heard of 40 foot fish scaring the living snot out of maintenance divers at the nearby dam, I was admittedly fearful. Then I smelled the odor of gas (not like in your gas line) and realized it was methane bubbling up from the lake floor.

Not sure I agree with your comments about nature doing more than man, unless you are talking about specific times when volcanoes are actively spewing (they definitely generate massive levels of greenhouse gasses). The world consumes, what, 75 MILLION barrels each and every day, not to mention the NG used and flared. I am having great difficulty agreeing a 1,204,500,000,000(365 day*75,000,000bbl*44 gal/bbl) Gallon pool of oil consumed EVERY year is "insignificant". Watching a recent Nova special about the Antarctic ice cores I was struck by their comments that the Carbon Dioxide levels in the ice have increased very dramatically in the top 50 year layer.

Even the coal plants are significant. The following comment is direct from the EPA's statement regarding a lawsuit against only SEVEN utilities (17 plants) (note that these are EXCESS emissions):

"Coal-burning power plants are major sources of nitrogen oxide, which produces ozone and smog that can cause asthma and other health problems. The Justice Department said the seven utilities' failure to install anti-pollution equipment resulted in about three million tons of harmful emissions annually."
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